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Bryan Ulrich

Welcome to my blog. In this space I will be sharing information regarding my profession. In essense, I work for an environmental engineering consultancy, and amongst other things, we help mining companies with the waste management. I plan to update the blog on a roughly weekly basis. If you have a particularly thought-provoking question of comment, I'll do my best to respond.

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December 27, 2021
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DEVELOPMENT OF GEOTECHNICAL PRACTICES FOR TAILINGS FACILITIES OVER THE YEARS (PART 2): THE FAILURE MODES AND EFFECTS ANALYSIS

Let’s discuss risk further.  Risk is defined as the product of the probability of an event occurring and consequences resulting from the event. Risk analyzes are a[…]

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December 20, 2021
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TWO MOOSE AT DAYBREAK

The day’s first light dimly began to brighten the early morning sky. Low clouds on the horizon to the east would slow the sun’s early light. There[…]

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November 30, 2021
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DEVELOPMENT OF GEOTECHNICAL PRACTICES FOR TAILINGS FACILITIES OVER THE YEARS (PART 1)

A while back, I wrote an article that appeared as a web-only article in Mining Engineering Magazine.  That article can be found here:  https://me.smenet.org/reader.cfm?webArticleID=3376 I reproduce that[…]

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November 8, 2021
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TAILS, TAILING OR TAILINGS?

Tails, tailing or tailings? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. In one of the proceedings of Tailings and Mine Waste, Prof. John Nelson[…]

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October 18, 2021
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LIFE GOES BY PRETTY QUICKLY

As the philosopher Ferris Bueller famously said, “Life moves pretty fast.  If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it”.  You[…]

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October 12, 2021
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HOW WILL WE MINE IN THE FUTURE (PART 1)?

What will mining be like in the future?  How will it be carried out?  How different will it be?  Certainly, at some point we will be mining[…]

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September 28, 2021
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HAVE YOU READ ANY GOOD BOOKS LATELY?

Hey, have you read any good books lately?  I mean a book on management, performance, business, organization, self-improvement and the likes.  Instructional books.  Educational books.  Have you[…]

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September 6, 2021
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WHAT IS A GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER (PART 2)?

So, do I need a do-over from Part 1?   In Part 1, I said that geotechnical engineering consists of two parts:  foundation engineering and soil mechanics.  This[…]

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