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[…]

When I started out in tailings management in the 1980s, the mining world felt like a different planet. Field offices were barely wired, we were checking piezometers[…]

When I started my career in geotechnical engineering, slope stability analysis was already a central part of the tailings dam design process. People in the generation before[…]

After four decades in tailings management, one thing has become clear to me: the fundamentals of good design rarely change. What does change is the context—larger facilities,[…]

Tailings dam practitioners should be interested in a variety of geophysical methods to assess the safety, stability, and environmental impact of tailings storage facilities. These methods are[…]