Few words in tailings management evoke more concern than liquefaction. When it occurs, a seemingly solid mass of tailings or foundation soil can lose its strength almost[…]

As 2025 comes to a close, I’ve been reflecting on the work that keeps our industry moving. In the geotechnical world, we spend a lot of time[…]

When people think about tailings dam safety, they often picture slope stability, earthquakes, or overtopping. These are real concerns, but in my 40 years working with tailings[…]

Thanksgiving is often associated with family, meals, and football. Yet, for those of us immersed in critical state soil mechanics, seepage analysis, and TSF stability, it’s also[…]

Every major tailings facility failure leaves behind a trail of devastation—lost lives, damaged communities, environmental harm, and shattered trust in the mining industry. Each time, we engineers[…]

Let’s face it, if you’ve spent any time designing a tailings storage facility (TSF), you’ve muttered the phrase, “Why does the geochemist want that?” under your breath.[…]

Okay, I got you here.  I was trying to be provocative.  I’m discussing semantics.  The term “dry stacking” bothers me, and it should bother you too.  “Dry”[…]

January 25, 2019, 12:28 PM — a date and time forever etched into mining history. At the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine in Brumadinho, Brazil, a[…]