So let’s talk about tailings. This conversation is overdue. In particular, let’s talk about hard-rock, milled tailings. There are other materials at other types of mining properties that[…]
If I could send a message back to a younger version of myself, I would have a lot to say to me. First, I’d tell myself to[…]
Most of the time, engineers calculate “factors of safety” for their designs. A factor of safety tells you how many times safer a design is than is[…]
My good friend, Jagrut Jathal has asked me the following questions: 1. Are upstream tailings dams really to blame for the recent incidents in Brazil? Despite the[…]
This is just a very brief follow-up to the two previous parts of this blog. As I stated at the conclusion of Part 2, “In next week’s[…]
As I was saying, I began to develop a slope stability model. What is a slope stability model, you may ask. Well, it’s pretty much what it sounds like. Some[…]
A website provides a database of world-wide tailings dams failures from 1915 to present (https://worldminetailingsfailures.org/). That website indicates that they support global research in tailings failure root cause, loss[…]
On January 25, 2019, the Córrego do Feijão Dam 1 collapsed at the Vale iron ore mine near Brumadinho in Brazil, releasing 11 million metric tons of[…]