The First International Future Mining Conference & Exhibition was held at The University of New South Wales, Sydney, November 19 – 21 November, organised by the School of Mining Engineering, UNSW and The AusIMM. Dr Serkan Saydam, Chair of the conference, told IM “the conference was very successful. We tried to look at the future of mining and to get some understanding of the potential problems along with the solutions and challenges. We also aimed in this conference to present new scientific and technological developments from other disciplines into the mining industry which was the uniqueness of the conference. There is no other mining conference that looks at and tries to find solutions from other disciplines. From my perspective we have achieved this successfully. (more…)