Workshops

Pre Congress Courses

Workshop A [Waste Rock Dumps]

Design, Maintenance, Operation and Closure of Waste rock Deposits, ROM Dump Leaching Piles and product in Stockpiles

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Chair: Denys Parra (Anddes, Peru)
Instructor:  Denys Parra
Sunday, October 25, 2026 (*)
To be defined
Language: English
CCL

Workshop B [Contour Blasting]

Geomechanics for Contour Blasting and Wall Damage Control

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Chair: Cristian Alvarez (Geoblast, Chile)
Instructors:  Carlos Scherpenisse , Alex Calderón
Sunday, October 25, 2026 (*)
To be defined
Language: English
CCL

Workshop C [Geotechnical Slope Design]

Next-Gen Slope Stability: Innovations in Modelling, Monitoring, and AI

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Chair:  Jose Zuta (Teck, Canada)

Instructors:  Camila Soto , Rodrigo Aguirre , Steve Meyerhoff , Isidora Arriagada , Jason Furtney , Loren Lorig , Catalina Álvarez , María Elena Valencia , Paolo Farina
Sunday, October 25, 2026 (*)
To be defined
Language: English
CCL

Workshop D [Hydrogeology in Slope Stability]

Hydrogeological and water management techniques for the stability of slopes in mining.

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Chair: Alfio Miraval (Glencore, Peru)
Instructors:  Miguel García , Herminio Nieto , Percy Sulca , Eduardo Ruiz
Sunday, October 25, 2026 (*)
To be defined
Language: English
CCL

Workshop E [Slope Survaillance]

Current trends in instrumentation and monitoring of open pit excavation slopes

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Friday, October 30, 2026 (*)
To be defined
Language: English
CCL

Workshop F [Structural DFN]

Basic remarks and study case about structural geology modelling using in Discrete Fracture Network (DFN)

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Chair: Jhon Palomino Mendoza (Glencore, Perú)
Instructors:  Luca Zorzi , Pedro Ojeda , Stephen Rogers
Friday, October 30, 2026 (*)
To be defined
Language: English
CCL

Workshop G [Risks & Reliability in Rock Slope Engineering]

Geological uncertainty, geotechnical data limitations, predicting failure mechanisms, assessing slope stability to understand likelihood and consequence of failure, designing against failure, case studies.

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Chair: José Vergara (Orica, Chile)
Instructors:  Alison McQuillan , Christian Cancino , Harry Saroglou , Phil de Graaf , Zoran Berisavljevic , Neil Bar
Friday, October 30, 2026 (*)
To be defined
Language: English
CCL

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