With the Heap Leach Solutions Conference, we seek to share knowledge and facilitate interaction between heap leach practitioners and researchers from a wide range of disciplines.

Call for Abstracts

The Organizing Committee for the 2025 Heap Leach Solutions Conference invites abstracts for consideration. The conference, to take place in Sparks, Nevada on October 19-21, 2025, will be framed around the following themes:

  • Project development
  • Operations
  • Closure
  • Gold, copper, nickel, uranium and other metal leaching
  • Heap leach hydrology
  • New technologies
  • Governance and communities
  • Modelling
  • Economics and Financing

The Organizing Committee envisions contributions will come from across the spectrum of heap leach solutions, technologies and management issues but encourage potential authors to try and consider framing their abstracts along the following paper types:

  • Case histories from any life-cycle stage(s) illustrating lessons learned and/or advancements in terms of one or more conference themes.
  • Innovations in approach or technology that apply to any of the life-cycle stages of heap leach solutions.
    Please note that abstracts that appear to be solely aimed at promoting commercial exposure (e.g. advertising) will be declined.
  • Updates on key topics from previous Heap Leach Solutions conferences.

Please note, papers accepted into the Conference Proceedings will not be subject to copyright restrictions and are permitted for publication outside of the Heap Leach Solutions 2025 Conference.

Submit an Abstract

Short Course Proposal

The Committee also invites proposals to run or contribute to short courses/workshops scheduled for Sunday, October 19, 2025. Note that the number of courses available will be limited in 2025. Ideally, the short courses/workshops would incorporate at least one of the above themes, be collaborative across the industry (e.g., include participation from owners, designers, academics, regulators, etc.), and include case histories.

See our list of important dates for submission deadlines below.

The Committee is accepting proposals for:

  • Short course/workshop leads (that would coordinate and facilitate the course); and
  • Collaborators that are interested in contributing to one of the courses.
Submit a Short Course Proposal

Important Dates 

Abstracts Due: April 11, 2025
Call for Short Courses Deadline: April 11, 2025
Draft Papers Due: June 20, 2025
Final Papers Due: August 15, 2025

 

For more information, please contact us at info@heapleachsolutions.ca.