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[…]
On January 25, 2019, the Córrego do Feijão Dam 1 collapsed at the Vale iron ore mine near Brumadinho in[…]
WHEN A TAILINGS FACILITY FAILS When a tailings facility fails, lives are impacted; families are impacted. When a tailings facility[…]
In about 1996 or 1997, when I joined Toastmasters (which I highly recommend to anyone who needs to speak in[…]
In April of 2015, I had the distinct pleasure of delivering a talk at the New York city’s chapter of[…]