A few weeks ago, a friend of mine was commenting on my blog, and said that I shouldn’t be afraid[…]

 It seems like impossible things happen all the time.  As a breather, let’s examine the first stanza of the poem, “It[…]

Preamble. Since the failure of the Mount Polley TSF in British Columbia and Samarco in Brazil, many things have changed[…]

So let’s talk about tailings. This conversation is overdue.  In particular, let’s talk about hard-rock, milled tailings. There are other materials[…]

If I could send a message back to a younger version of myself, I would have a lot to say[…]

Most of the time, engineers calculate “factors of safety” for their designs. A factor of safety tells you how many[…]

My good friend, Jagrut Jathal has asked me the following questions: 1. Are upstream tailings dams really to blame for[…]

This is just a very brief follow-up to the two previous parts of this blog. As I stated at the[…]