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 Bidim and Richards BayThursday, July 31, 2008I cannot find it on Google Earth. It stuck one kilometer out into the bay and was one kilometer wide, so it should still be visible. I refer to a phosphogypsum tailings impoundment I designed for Louis Luyt at Richards Bay in South Africa in the late 1970s. read more » Tailings and Mine Waste ‘08Wednesday, July 30, 2008The program for the conference Tailings and Mine Waste ’08 gives preview of debates to come. The conference is slated for 19 to 22 October in Vail, Colorado. read more » In-Lake Tailings Disposal Tuesday, June 17, 2008A new report from the Globe and Mail states that sixteen Canadian mining companies have applied to dispose of mine tailings in lakes across the country. read more » Gilt Edge Mine Superfund SiteThursday, June 12, 2008The proceedings of Tailings & Mine Waste ’03 contains papers on the Gilt Edge Mine. There is an abstract on the water balance of the site proposed for the ’08 conference. read more » Pierina Gold MineThursday, June 12, 2008GoldSim to the rescue again: an abstract for the conference on Tailings & Mine Waste ’08 tells of a water balance model for the Pierina Gold Mine in Peru using GoldSim for the entire plant. read more » Vail Tailings and Mine Waste ConferenceWednesday, June 11, 2008If you are involved in tailings and mine waste, you must attend the conference on that topic being planned for October in Vail, Colorado. In addition to your basic interests, here are a few reasons why you should attend. read more » Dry Tailings BeachesFriday, May 30, 2008Prediction of the Beach Profile of High Density Thickened Tailings From Rheological and Small Scale Trial Deposition Data is a paper and presentation by Gordon McPhail. read more » Tailings & Mine Waste ‘08Wednesday, May 28, 2008Word has just come in that the folk organizing the conference Tailings and Mine Waste ‘08 have just met and extended the deadline for submission of abstracts to this conference until mid-June and they are asking that papers come in by mid-July. read more » Salt Lake County Picks Committee Members to Probe TailingsWednesday, May 14, 2008Salt Lake County has picked more than a dozen panelists to snoop into the seismic safety of Kennecott's tailings pile in northwest Magna. read more » Oboni on RiskTuesday, April 22, 2008Franco & Cesar Oboni, a father and son team, have just published a paperback with the title “Improving Sustainability through Reasonable Risk and Crisis Management”. read more » Sullivan Mine Safety GuidelinesTuesday, April 22, 2008From the Proceedings of the Sixth Australian Workshop on Acid and Metalliferous Drainage, held in mid-April 2008 is a paper entitled "Sullivan Mine Fatalities Incident: Preliminary Technical Investigations and Findings". read more » Tailings ElectroosmosisTuesday, February 19, 2008Electroosmosis involves application of an electric voltage across a porous material to increase the hydraulic gradient, thereby speeding up fluid flow and hopefully consolidation, strength gain, and reduced permeability. read more » Tailings and Mine WasteFriday, February 08, 2008The series of conferences on Tailings and Mine Waste started out at Colorado State University in 1978. For many years there was an annual conference and the important attended. read more » Pebble TailingsThursday, January 10, 2008From the April 2007 issue of Mining Engineering, here is a summary of the description of the proposed Pebble Mine’s proposed tailings impoundment. read more » Tailings Due DiligenceThursday, December 27, 2007Here are some guidelines for a due diligence examination of a mine waste disposal facility. read more » Earthquake Resources & ConsultantsFriday, December 14, 2007The mine facility most susceptible to earthquake damage is the tailings impoundment. Here are some links to sources of data on earthquakes and consultants who may be able to help you. read more » Dry TailingsTuesday, September 04, 2007The Coeur d’Alene mine north of Juneau, Alaska is once again in the news. I summarize news reports from about 2005 until September 2, 2007. read more » Los Pelambres and the El Mauro Tailings DamMonday, August 27, 2007This is a tale that is still unfolding. The truth is well hidden by all concerned, for there are billions at stake. read more » Solvent ExtractionWednesday, August 15, 2007In 1989 Elsevier published a book called Tailings Management: Problems and Solutions in the Mining Industry by Gordon M. Ritcey. Here is a brief review of the book read more » Paste and Thickened TailingsMonday, August 13, 2007With increasing focus on efficient water use by mines, we read more and more of paste tailings as a way to reduce water consumption. I recently received two books on paste tailings from the Australian Centre for Geomechanics read more » Kemess Tailings ImpoundmentThursday, June 14, 2007My nomination of the best technical paper on the CIM conference proceedings CD: Design and construction evolution of the Kemess Mine tailings dam by T. Martin, G. Lysay, and S. Davidson. read more » Paste TailingsTuesday, June 05, 2007The March 2007 International Mining includes a supplement on Paste Tailings Management. This valuable supplement includes the following articles read more » New Tailings PublicationsMonday, May 14, 2007Here are some books I found through the Tailings Good Practice site. Some are available for free download. Those on paste tailings must be ordered and paid for. read more » Mine AccidentsThursday, March 08, 2007This is why accidents happen on mines and people die: ten silly little things happen; each is trivial and insignificant in and of itself read more » Brazilian Dam BurstFriday, March 02, 2007The web was recently awash in the flood of news about the failure of a “bauxite mine tailings dam burst” in Brazilian read more » Quality in MiningWednesday, February 28, 2007Is there such a thing as QUALITY IN MINING? Has the mining industry ever practiced conventional quality programs? read more » Mine Sand PilesThursday, February 22, 2007My father regularly drove us out to those piles of golden sand, so soft and warm in the summer sun. And here we would spend happy hours climbing up the sand and sliding down, and climbing up and sliding down read more » Kemess Mine ReviewFriday, February 16, 2007The news release is bland enough: “Northgate Minerals Corporation reports that Ministers of the Environment for Canada and British Columbia have amended the schedule read more » Franklin MiningWednesday, February 14, 2007A rare collection of technical and cost evaluation reports on a new mining project is available at the Franklin Mining, Inc site read more » Solution Mining IrrigationWednesday, February 07, 2007A well-produced brochure is more informative than a text book, and certainly more entertaining than most paper magazines stuffed with pale replications of marketing materials turned into fake-erudite articles. read more » Rock Pile Transient SeepageFriday, February 02, 2007This is the story of a waste rock dump success/failure. The story is in a paper from BiTech Publishers and their premier magazine Geotechnical News. read more » I Think Mining BlogWednesday, January 31, 2007Some paper magazines will never die. They are the ones with high quality, thoughtful, well-written articles. The rest are doomed to fade and wither. Part of their problem is the competition of Blogs read more » Carbon Fixation in TailingsTuesday, January 23, 2007Regardless of your opinion of the reality and/or causes of climate change, I suspect these are the relevant questions for the mining industry read more » Grouting Confined AreasFriday, January 19, 2007The closest thing I’ve come to grout is a summer spent emptying bags of cement into a huge hopper, which was eventually transported to off shore North Sea oil rigs to be used by Halliburton on “cement jobs”. read more » Risk-Based Probabilistic Cover PerformanceMonday, January 08, 2007Little on the web impresses me; but this site does. I am not sure why. There is nothing new. There is nothing particularly profound. All the news and views are readily available elsewhere. read more » Mining and the Twelve Days of ChristmasThursday, December 28, 2006A blog-like review of the 2006 mining industry, mining technology, and the twelve days of christmas, and prospects for mining in 2007. read more » Fort Knox Gold Mine LandfillTuesday, December 12, 2006Landfills at mines seldom get much attention. The size and glory of the waste rock dump, the heap leach pad, and the tailings impoundment quickly overshadow the lowly landfill. read more » Utah Mine ReclamationFriday, December 08, 2006This volume is the best primer on Mine Reclamation I have yet come across: The Practical Guide to Reclamation in Utah. It should be your first stop on a tour of mine reclamation reading, even if your mine is not in Utah. read more » INEEL Disposal FacilityWednesday, December 06, 2006For all those interested in the design of waste disposal facilities, the volume on the design of a mixed waste disposal facility at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratories (INEEL) is a must-read. read more » BLM Mined Land ReclamationMonday, December 04, 2006A comprehensive manual on mine reclamation is probably a pipe dream. The topic is too large and multi-disciplinary to get all the information in one volume. read more » Brazil Cover Design ManualFriday, December 01, 2006This manual is as good a summary of all the relevant theory and practice of unsaturated cover design as any I have come across. read more » Colorado Mine ReclamationFriday, December 01, 2006A recent report (June 2006) makes fascinating reading and instructive reporting. I refer to the Reclamation Feasibility Report Henson Creek Watershed read more » Malartic Project, QuebecTuesday, November 28, 2006The performance of covers on tailings piles to limit oxygen migration to the acid generating materials beneath are the topic of an abstract in the latest CIM magazine. read more » Mt TolmanThursday, November 23, 2006The design of the tailings impoundment for the Mt Tolman molybdenum mine involved a 300-ft high rockfill embankment above which would rise a 600-ft high embankment of sands cyclones from the tailings. read more » Meridian GoldThursday, November 23, 2006A good story with a happy ending; a testimony to what can be achieved; congratulations. These positive thoughts came to mind when I saw this piece on the wire this morning. I quote: “Meridian Gold Inc is pleased to announce read more » Zambian ProcessingThursday, November 23, 2006This from the pages of the Times of Zambia: Large scale mining companies have invested US$1.4 billion in plant rehabilitation, expansion and in new technology in the last five years, President Mwanawasa has said.
read more » OmaiThursday, November 09, 2006We repeat verbatim this news report from Mineweb, lest you missed it. We have previously written about the failure of the tailings dam and it implications. read more » Good Practice Mining PublicationsFriday, November 03, 2006The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) website on Tailings: Good Practice continues to bring us easy access to view or purchase books newly posted/advertised on their site. Here are some read more » Diamond Equipment TechnologyTuesday, October 31, 2006Does equipment technology now threaten the diamond mining industry? Two news items raise this fear read more » Glamis Review ReportFriday, October 20, 2006A rare peek into the exclusive world of peer review of tailings dams. We hear so much about the need, and see so little of the implementation. read more » Tailings Are Useful?Monday, September 18, 2006Why are tailings not used as construction material? It seems to me that tailings form a large body of known dimensions of uniformly sized particles that could be used for something. read more » TailPro AnnouncementFriday, September 8, 2006At long last the announcement of a welcome event. Here is what is in the e-mail from Jonathan Engels, now in Perth: Thank you for your past interest in TailPro, the online resource designed to assist tailings related engineers read more » New Tailings SiteWednesday, September 6, 2006A new, updated, or hitherto ignored site on tailings? Tailings.info is new in my view, although the site notes that it has been around a long time. I like it very much and hope they succeed and prosper. The site describes itself thus read more » Geoengineer WebsiteWednesday, August 30, 2006I have previously written in this site about one of my favorite websites, namely www.geoengineer.org. Here is what I said almost a year ago read more » |
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