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Mine Closure & Circular Economies
Mine closure has historically been treated as a problem to be remediated. This panel reframes it as a system to be redesigned — one with three intersecting lenses that have rarely been brought into the same conversation: industrial circularity (what gets reprocessed, repurposed, regenerated), environmental services on country (what land and ecology are owed, and how that is delivered), and First Nations cultural authority (whose Country it is, and whose decision the post-mining future belongs to). The panel surfaces where these lenses sharpen each other, where they pull in different directions, and what operators, METS and partners need to do differently to land circular post-mining at scale.
Three lenses on circular post-mining — industrial circularity, environmental services on country, and First Nations cultural authority — closing with one concrete commitment delegates can take into operations.
