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[…]

Unlike most water dams, which are typically constructed in a single campaign, a tailings storage facility (TSF) is most often[…]

The initial stage of mining starts with the process of finding and the exploration of the mineral deposit. Prospecting is[…]