Events

Upcoming and past Tailings Center events, Tech Talks, and conferences.

Foundation Recruitment

Terry Braun

Terry Braun

Center Director

On behalf of the Tailings Center, I encourage your company to consider becoming a partner with the Tailings Center. Our operating year begins on July 1 of each year. We rely on a foundation model for our funding. Please review the details of our new two tier partnership model and the value proposition in the link below.

The Tailings Center supports education and independent research initiatives across our partner institutions: the Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University, and University of Arizona. Contributions to this foundation provide financial resources for unrestricted and independent research. While our research team are under no obligation to send reports or assign rights, we remain committed to sharing our discoveries and progress related to research conducted through your contribution.

Review our partnership model & value proposition →

Upcoming Events

Undergraduate Summer Sessions on Tailings Applications and Innovations

June 2, 2026

Presenter: Various, Member Schools

Tech Talk | What We Don't Value, We Don't Improve: Understanding Value Around Tailings Decisions

Members Only

July 23, 2026

Presenter: Benjamin Cox and Ben Murphy, B2Capital

Public Webinar: Unlocking Large Tonnage Filtered Tailings Stacks

July 29, 2026

Presenter: Rob Cooke, PhD , Tailings Management Consortium

Past Events

Tech Talk | Tailings Workforce Survey: Revisiting the 2020 Labor Demand Study

Members

June 25, 2026

Joseph Scalia

Tech Talk | Evaluating Consequences for Tailings Dams: Estimating Life Loss Using LifeSim for Feijao B-1 Tailings Dam Failure

Members

May 21, 2026

Jesse Morril-Winter, GEI Consultants

Tech Talk | Portfolio Risk Management for Tailings Facilities

Members

April 23, 2026

Rachel Sawyer, O'Kane Consultants

Tailings Day — Fall 2025 (Colorado School of Mines)

November 11, 2025

Tailings Center, Colorado School of Mines

Alternative Tailings Technologies Workshop — Relaves 2025 (Peru)

November 5, 2025

Tailings Center, Relaves 2025 · Peru

Visit to the Sustainable Minerals Institute — Brisbane, Australia

Visit to the Sustainable Minerals Institute — Brisbane, Australia

September 22, 2025

Terry Braun, Tailings Center

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Tailings 2025 — Santiago, Chile

Tailings 2025 — Santiago, Chile

September 2, 2025

Tailings Center, Santiago, Chile

Tech Talk | Leveraging Machine Learning Technologies in Tailings Risk Management

Members

August 1, 2025

Will Conrad, Canary Systems

Tech Talk | Slurry to Recovery: Field-Proven Strategies for Tailings Water Management

Members

July 1, 2025

Mitra Jafaei, Nick Antonopoulos, Yatin Pandit, Kevin Donahue, ClearBakk / CeraMem

Master the Life-Cycle Management of Tailings Facilities

Master the Life-Cycle Management of Tailings Facilities

June 2, 2025

Kim Morrison, Joe Scalia & Tejo Bheemasetti, Tailings Center

Tech Talk | Closure Economics in Mining

Members

June 1, 2025

Terry Braun, Tailings Center

Tailings Day — Spring 2025 (Colorado School of Mines)

Tailings Day — Spring 2025 (Colorado School of Mines)

April 4, 2025

Tailings Center, Colorado School of Mines

Importance of Soft Skills & Emotional Intelligence in Tailings Management

April 17, 2024

Christopher Hatton, WSP