A very simple answer to the question: why invest in mining in Chile? Mining is booming in Chile; they seem to have the right government; they have the resources; the climate is right for mines in the far north; and the big companies are all in play.
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Why Invest in Mining in Chile?
Posted in Investing & Finance, Latin America, Tailings, tagged Chile, desalination, invest, mining, Tailings on March 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Mine and Hazardous Waste Cells in the Desert
Posted in Geotechnical, Mining history, Tailings, tagged desert, hazardous waste, mine on March 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This week I have read and debated about tailings disposal in the desert. That set me in mind of a paper I wrote more than twenty years ago. It is fun to go back and see what was in issue then as compared to now. Here is the link to the paper with the long [...]
What’s in a Name? – Thickened vs. Paste Mine Tailings
Posted in communication, environmental, mining, Tailings, tagged mining, paste, processing, rheology, Tailings, thickened on March 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
With the Paste 2012 conference on mine tailings just a few weeks away in Sun City, I’ve pinched this title from a question posed at the 2008 conference in the paper Surface disposal of paste and thickened tailings – A brief history and current confronting issues. So thank you to the authors (M. Williams, K. Seddon, and [...]
The History of Tailings Filter-Pressing from SME’s One Mine
Posted in Mining history, Tailings, tagged filter-pess, history, SME one mine, Tailings on March 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
You will need to access the SME One Mine Library to get the earliest papers on filter pressing of tailings. Here are interesting points from some—but do go and read the whole paper in each case—they are fascinating:
Stacked Against All Odds – Mine Tailings Stacks
Posted in environmental, Geotechnical, mining, Open Pit, Tailings, Underground, tagged mining, paste, stacks, Tailings, thickened on March 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The night is waning into dawn, and the air is thick with smoke and desperate moves. The mine mill is still churning off in the distance. The odds are against you – what to do?
Jobs in Mining Process Engineering: Understanding The Process & Profession
Posted in Engineering - General, Jobs and Salaries, Tailings, Uncategorized, tagged alberta, Australia, jobs, madagascar, mining, Oil sands, process engineering on March 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
When I think of a place or a country, in my ignorance I generally believe all the people who make up that country to be of a similar stock, have like personality traits and characteristics. That view of those people is either reinforced or altered completely when we meet someone who calls that place home [...]
Stability Analysis of Tailngs Dams – Focus on Numerical Modelling
Posted in mining, Tailings, tagged lulea university, muhammad zadari, numerical modeling, stability analysis, tailings dams on March 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a link to a Licentiate Thesis by Muhammad Auchar Zardari of the Lulea University of Technology in Sweden. Its title is Stability Analysis of Tailings Dams – Focus on Numerical Modelling. It is a big document and the connection was slow, but well worth the patience. I recommend that you download a copy [...]
Mining Subsidence and Loss of Water to Mines
Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Coal, environmental, Europe, Mining history, North America, Underground, tagged Coal, mining subsidence, woronora on March 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The old adage “a picture is worth a thousand words” comes to mind when you look at the above photos. I was talking to a colleague about his trip to Timmins, Ontario for an Undergraduate Geological Engineering field trip to visit the old gold and base metal mines. I too had to share a few [...]
More on EIAs for Mines, New, Expanded, or Closing
Posted in consulting, Enviromental, Environment, Human relations and mining, mining, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged eia, EIS, environmenal impact, mining, Rosemont Copper on March 15, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Integral to any new mine or expansion of a mine is the preparation of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). If you seek to significantly expand the mine’s tailings, waste rock, or heap leach facilities, you may have to prepare a new or supplemental EIA. Here are references to and extacts from some documents that we [...]
Cover Technology in Mining: Wismut to Suncor’s Pond 5
Posted in Europe, North America, Oil sands, Reclamation, Tailings, tagged covers, pond 5, Suncor, Tailings, wick drains, Wismut on March 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Clap! The sound a big volume of mining proceedings made when it landed on my desk this morning. Dropped from on high, this volume is the collection of technical papers from an International Symposium on closure of uranium mines at Wismut in Germany. If you haven’t heard of Wismut, then I suggest you get a [...]
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