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Water Balance Covers For Waste Containment
Water Balance Covers for Waste Containment: Principles and Practice by William Albright, Craig Benson, and Joseph Waugh landed on my desk this week. And a great book it is. The authors have been...
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Long-Term Covers for Tailings Facilities, Waste Rock Dumps, Heap Leach Dumps
Almost every day I am asked or confronted by this question: what is the best cover for a tailings facility? After twenty years of deliberation, I give this simple answer. The only cover that is...
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EduMine Tailings Courses: Passing on the Tourch of Knowledge & Experience
A very old friend, now prominent in Australian mining spent the weekend with me. We drank expensive whiskey, which he paid for, and rode many miles on my bikes around Vancouver on a fine sunny fall...
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What Do Civil & Geootechnical Engineers Do at Mines and for Mining?
There is more civil engineering in mining than there is mining engineering in mining. To substantiate this controversial statement let me repeat below something I wrote a long time ago. In what...
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California Quarries and the Future of Mining
Another day of webcasts on mining and yet another long argument over the future of mining. We opined in the webcast that filter-pressed tailings is the only way to go with the future of tailings: if...
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Tailings, tailings & mine waste, paste, thickened tailings, managing mine...
Just received word of another conference on tailings to be held in 2013. The new one is the First International Seminar on Tailings Management. It is planned for 28 to 30 August in the Sheraton...
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Mine Water Conferences and Webcasts: EduMine on Mine Water Management
Management of mine waters is the topic of the day. Conferences crop up like springs in a wet place. Here are those I find for 2013. There are probably many more being planned for 2014. •Mine...
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The Pencil and Engineering Design for Mining
On a series of flight to and from a distant mine, I read a great deal on the history and manufacture of the pencil. The book I read is called The Pencil and is by Henry Petroski a professor of civil...
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Mine Water Management Best Practice Guidelines and EduMine Webcast
Browsing the web earlier this week I came across the site of the South African Department of Water Affairs. There I found the following Best Practice Guidelines relevant to mine water management: H1....
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Going Mining Underground
Underground is the essence of mining. As a kid of perhaps ten-years old, my father took me a mile down a shaft of the mine where he worked as a mine captain. Somewhat fearful, I followed him close...
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Mining Risk Assessment of Geowaste Facilities
You remember Jill. She is the philosophy major who is employed by an innovative mining company, MMC, to oversee risk management of the mining company’s geowaste facilities including the tailings,...
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Geosynthetic Mining Solutions 2014 – September Vancouver Conference
In addition to blogging, I consult to the mining industry. And I work with Andy Robertson who also owns InfoMine to promote conferences — something InfoMine has decided to undertake in a big way. A...
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Tailings and Mine Waste Best Presentation: Ausenco & Carrasco
Every so often a presentation at a conference takes your breath away and leaves you amazed at the ability of the speaker and their colleagues. This happened today as a sat listening to Joel Carrasco...
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The Best Mine Waste Cover is No Cover. Cold Climate Ruminations
It is snowing in Vancouver. Nothing sticking to the roads, but the trees are white and beautiful. Nothing much to do outside or inside for that matter, so just a few thoughts on mine waste disposal...
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Mine Waste Covers in Cold Canadian Climates
Spent today in a course on Covers in Cold Climates. The course is part of the seminar to follow tomorrow and Wednesday on the same topics. Arranged by InfoMine, it is being held in Whistler, which...
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EduMine Advanced Tailings Webcast
There is still time to join us for the upcoming EduMine webcast Advanced Tailings and Mine Waste Facility Design, Operation, and Closure. Here is the link to the course. Even if you have taken other...
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Mine Closure: Conferences, Webcasts, and the Truth about Pascua Lama
Next week in Brazil is the first InfoMine conference on Mine Closure. About ninety folk will gather to discuss mine closure in Brazil and South America. I have read the papers: not a lot of...
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Mine Waste Facility Sideslope Covers
The exterior surface of most tailings, waste rock, and heap leach facilities include: A top deck which is the flatter surface that forms the top surface of the facility. This is usually sloped at...
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Craig Benson on Rock Cover Performance
The final keynote speech at the conference on Tailings and Mine Waste was from Craig Benson. He talked about mine waste facility covers. He has promised me a pdf of his talk. But in the meantime...
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1980s Technical Papers on Risk and Geochemistry in Mining
This week I had reason to go back and re-read three papers I co-authored in the early 1980s. It is surprising how far advanced we were then, and how little things have changed, or how little of what...
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