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Instrumentation and Monitoring for Open Pit Mines, Underground Mines, and Tailings Dams

Date(s):
Thursday, March 9, 2023
12:00 PM–1:00 PM
Format:
Webinar
Status:
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Eligible for 1 CE Hour of Technical Learning

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Event Details

Cost

Engineers and Geoscientists in the Resource Sector Division member: $15 + GST = $15.75

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Group webinar presentation (for office environments): $45 + GST = $47.25

Students: $10 + GST = $10.50

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Contact

For registration inquiries please contact Victoria Stevens at [email protected].

Event Description

The presentation will present an overview of the main technologies for stability monitoring of open pit mines, underground mines, and tailings dams including traditional geotechnical instrumentation (e.g., piezometers, inclinometers, extensometers, TDR) as well as newer technologies which are now mainstream, such as Satellite InSAR and GNSS, dataloggers, and data management and visualization software.

Event Presenter(s)

Pierre Choquet, P.Eng.

About the Event

Presenter

Pierre Choquet, P.Eng., has been involved in the field of Geotechnical Instrumentation and Monitoring for most of his career. He joined RST Instruments of Maple Ridge, BC in 2007 and is now Technical Advisor of Terra Insights and Vice-President of Market Development for RST Instruments. Pierre graduated in Geological Engineering (Engineering Geology) from Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and subsequently obtained a doctorate degree in Rock Mechanics from Ecole des Mines de Paris in France. From 1982–1993 he was a faculty member at the department of Mining and Metallurgy of Laval University in Quebec City where his specialty was rock mechanics, ground control, and applied geology. He is a member of the USSD Committee on Monitoring Dams and their Foundations, and is the Canada representative on the ICOLD Technical Committee on Dam Surveillance. He is also the Editor of the Instrumentation and Monitoring column of the Canadian Geotechnique magazine.




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