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[…]

As I was saying, I began to develop a slope stability model.  What is a slope stability model, you may ask.  Well,[…]

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[…]