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 Kennecott Planned for Imminent Slide Months in AdvanceFriday, April 12, 2013With the use of technology and careful watching, damage caused by the slide at Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Mine was minimized before it even happened. read more » Bingham Canyon Mine Slope FailureFriday, April 12, 2013A massive slope failure has occurred at the open pit of the Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah. Nobody was hurt: the mine had been monitoring movement and when deformation increased from 1 mm a day to 5 mms day they pulled out all workers. read more » Stability Analysis of Tailings Dams – Focus on Numerical ModellingMonday, March 26, 2012Here is a link to a Licentiate Thesis by Muhammad Auchar Zardari of the Lulea University of Technology in Sweden. Its title is Stability Analysis of Tailings Dams – Focus on Numerical Modelling. read more » Groundwater Modeling in Decision Making About Mine Tailings, Waste Rock, and Heap Leach FacilitiesWednesday, March 21, 2012Let me discuss modelling, calculating, and thinking as part of the decision making process. In particular, I write of those essential modern aids to judgment, namely conceptual models and the running of computer codes. read more » Conceptual Models for Mining Analysis and Decision MakingWednesday, March 21, 2012Conceptual models are key aspects of mine modelling, analysis, and decision making. With our limited thinking ability, we need concepts, or models, of reality before we can fully comprehend, understand, and mentally manipulate reality. read more » |
