Tailings and Mine Waste 2015

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Tailings and Mine Waste 2015 - Cover- Final 1. Tailings Management and Stewardship Contents Wilson, GW - The value of failure Rogers, J - Influence of tailings deposition environment on deposit homogeneity and interpretation of cone penetration test data Fuller, M - Tailings stewardship – genuine corporate responsibility Robertson, AM - Tailings facility review and evaluation standards Barrera, S - Reassessment of tailings best available management practices Boswell, J - International Tailings Failures and Best Available Technology Cox, B - Leading practice in tailings planning for high-throughput mining operations Ulrich, B - Combined tailings and mine waste Valdebenito, R - Design and operation of a thickened tailings disposal (TTD) Doucet, K - Thickened tailings characterization program for a tailings storage Caldwell, J - Filter-pressed tailings facility design, construction, and operating guidelines Gowan, MJ - Dewatered tailings disposal ­ a cost effective alternative to wet disposal Perreault, NN - Tailings, managing for the future Small, CC - Assessing reclamation ready tailings materials using outdoor terrestrial mesocosms Wilson, GW - Designing tailings and waste rock systems for closure Langseth, J - Placement of caps on soft and fluid tailings Fasking, T - Risk informed methodology to prioritize responses associated with mine waste Hill, JR - Improvement of geotechnical and environmental conditions of mine tailings facilities by pre-fabricated 2. Consolidation and Compression of Tailings Chen, F - Numerical modeling of the sedimentation process using coupled discrete element method and computational fluid dynamics Jeeravipoolvarn, S - Revisiting the large strain consolidation test for oil sands Znidarcic, D - If it creeps, does it matter Chaudhary, K - Benchmarking of large-strain consolidation, sedimentation, and creep process for oil-sands tailings Contreras, I - Strength gain of fine tailings-slimes resulting from secondary compression Shokouhi, A - Settling and consolidation behaviour of coal tailings slurry under continuous loading Ibanez, M - Optimizing dewatering and soft tailings consolidation by enhancing Boswell, JES - Oil sands thickened tailings ­ remedies from an international perspective Fredlund, M - Pseudo 3-D deposition and large-strain consolidation modeling of tailings deep deposits 3. Tailings failures and breach analysis Martin, V - Challenges with conducting tailng dam breach studies Strachan, C - The role of water management in tailings dam incidents Fontaine, D - Tailings mobilization estimates for dam breach studies Caldwell, J - Tailings facility failures in 2014 and an update on failure statistics Akkermann, A - Assessing credible modes of failure - Afton TSF dam breach study 4. Waste Rock StArnault, M - In-depth lithological and weathering profile of a waste rock dump Fredlund, M - Modeling of seepage through segregating waste rock part II Horton, J - Variability of aamples from various drilling and sampling methods Williams, DJ - An attempt to estimate waste rock and soil shear strengths based upon strengths of intact rock cores 5. Geotechnical Lee, YB - Numerical analysis of effect of mitigation measures on seismic performance of a liquefiable tailings dam foundation Pérez, K - Procedures for estimating seismic permanent displacements on tailings storage facilities and mine waste dumps Williams, DJ - Selection of shear strength profile for desiccated tailings to support an upstream raise Castillo, J - Numerical model comparison on deformation behavior of a TSF embankment subjected to earthquake loading 6. Oil sands Wells, PS - Slurry to soil clay behaviour model – using methylene blue to cross the process-geotechnical engineering divide Poindexter, MK - Geotechnical column evaluation of new flocculant technology for dewatering oil sands mature fine tailings Yang, X -Tubifex - a biological method for dewatering oil sands tailings Znidarcic, D - RheomaxR ETD technology a laboratory study of application performance and associated geotechnical characteristics for polymer assisted tailings deposition of oil sands MFT Nicolaisen, J - Oil sands tailings management projects Mortimer, J - Improved tailings deposition management – an understanding of process variables 7. Treatment Tamburini, JR - Designing and constructing a mine water treatment facility to remove multiple contaminants Romaniuk, N - Residual bitumen recovery from oil sand tailings with lime Garcia, P - Electrokinetic treatment of oil sands tailings Martin, AJ - Modelling of pit lake filling scenarios using a coupled physical and biogeochemical model Swenson, JB - Assessing controls on sodium accumulation in oil sands process waters and tailings 8. Case studies Kurylo, JB - Building on soft tailings - east lake TMF expansion Wilke, M - Efficient and environmentally sustainable tailings treatment and storage by geosynthetic dewatering tubes - working principles and talvivaara case study Schmidt, B - Satellite monitoring of a large tailings storage facility Reid, D - Characterizing the stiff clay foundation soil below a TSF in Western Australia Campaña, J - Quillayes sand tailings dam in Chile design and operation Reid,D - Assessing the effects of polymer treatment – segregation considerations Tong, A - Geosynthetics in closure - the underdog that could be a winner Tortelli, G -Tailings dams in Nevada – an overview Sadighian, A -Investigation of the role of the viscosity of the suspending fluid on pipe wear erosion during coarse particle (settling) slurry transport Guang, R - Application of flume testing to field-scale beach slope prediction Tailings and Mine Waste 2015 - Back