Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Centre for Land Rehabilitation of the University of Western Australia and Gecamin are pleased to invite engineers, researchers, regulators, operators, consultants and service providers to participate in the v international conference on mine closure – mine closure 2010, to take place on 23-26 November 2010 in Santiago, Chile. This Conference is the fifth of a series initiated in 2006 by the Centre for Land Rehabilitation of the University of Western Australia and the Australian Centre for Geomechanics. For the second time Mine Closure returns to Chile after the successful conference held in Santiago in 2007 that gathered 415 delegates.