Short course:
Everything you Wanted to Know About Geotechnical, Tailings, and Reclamation Review Boards
Date: November 2, 2025
Event: Tailings and Mine Waste 2025
Location: Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, Alberta
On November 2, 2025, geotechnical engineer Gord McKenna will present the inaugural short course on mine review boards on the opening day of the Tailings and Mine Waste 2025 conference in Banff, Alberta. The short course “Everything you Wanted to Know About Geotechnical, Tailings, and Reclamation Review Boards” takes place from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. noon at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel. McKenna’s firm, McKenna Geotechnical Inc., is the sponsor of a new online resource for mine review boards.
The short course will cover a broad range of topics related to mine review boards, including:
- reviewboards.org
- Program — Tailings and Mine Waste Conference Series
- Tailings and Mine Waste Conference Series — Geotechnical, environmental and regulatory topics related to tailings and mine waste management.
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“Balancing reward and risk is not achievable by relying on one single engineering calculation. The trick is to bring all of these priorities into concert with one another. The board helps the engineering staff apply judgment and professional wisdom to the mathematics and the science, which ensures management … is staying in sync with good practice, to avoid drifting into insular practice, to avoid normalization of deviance.”
— Greg Fuhr