My father recently asked me to be a lunchtime speaker at his service club.  At first, I had no idea what I would talk about.  Then it[…]

Governance.  With respect to mine tailings management, there has been a lot of activity regarding governance.  What is governance?  According to Wikipedia, “Governance is the overall complex[…]

At one of my jobs, many years ago, and in a land far away (queue Star Wars opening credit sequence), I realized that those who talk long[…]

This is an AI-generated image from a description “mine tailings facility in the mountains.” Nice going, AI. In one of the proceedings of Tailings and Mine Waste,[…]

Okay it’s not about the true meaning of life, but I caught your eye, didn’t I? A recent post on LinkedIn grabbed my attention.  It was about[…]

I was invited to attend the 2024 London Indaba, which I attended remotely.  It was an honor to be invited as a journalist (and certainly easier on[…]

Small failure at a TSF in South Africa There has been a rash of tailings failures during the last year or so.  It makes me wonder if[…]

Change without change management can devolve into what Dekker (2014) termed “drift”.  If change after change occurs without any management of the change, the results can be[…]