Mine Closure 2025
23-25 September 2025 | Luleå, Sweden
- Mine Closure 2025 will be hosted in Sweden, 23-25 September 2025.
- Abstracts due 6 February 2025. Learn more here.
- Seeking expressions of interest to host workshops alongside Mine Closure 2025. Click here to learn more.
- The papers of previous Mine Closure conferences are freely available to download from the ACG Online Repository of Conference Proceedings at papers.acg.uwa.edu.au/f/mineclosure
- ACG training videos are freely available. Click here to access.
About the Conference
The series of International Conferences on Mine Closure is a fixture on the calendars of many mining professionals, providing topical and high quality papers and presentations on a range of topics of immediate interest and relevance.
A key feature of the conference series is the diversity of disciplines and expertise that come together to focus on the pressing issues facing the mine closure community globally.
Conference Themes
Responsible …
- … operations for closure
- … closure objectives and criteria
- … financing
- … landform design and long-term stability
- … social planning and transition
- … biodiversity and nature outcomes
- … mine closure strategies for extreme conditions
- … capacity building
- … use of artificial intelligence (AI)
Previous conferences have been held in:
- 2024 Perth, Australia
- 2023 Reno, Nevada, USA
- 2022 Brisbane, Australia
- 2021 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- 2019 Perth, Australia
- 2018 Leipzig, Germany
- 2016 Perth, Australia
- 2015 Vancouver, Canada
- 2014 Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2013 Cornwall, England
- 2012 Brisbane, Australia
- 2011 Alberta, Canada
- 2010 Vina del Mar, Chile
- 2009 Perth, Australia
- 2008 Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2007 Santiago, Chile
- 2006 Perth, Australia
Conference Chair
Conference Co-chairs
Emeritus Professor Sven Knutsson
Emeritus Professor, Soil Mechanics
Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Annika Bjelkevik
Technical Director
TCS – Tailings Consultants Scandinavia AB, Sweden
Kristina Branteryd
Environment and Sustainability Director
Svemin AB, Sweden