With the new year growing old, our thoughts turn to the conferences of 2012. And the technical papers we may write and present. I am reminded of this by today’s email on the soon to be first meeting to set about organizing Tailings and Mine Waste 2012. So soon, so soon after the last conference?
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Technical Papers on Mining and 2012 Conference Attendance
Posted in communication, consulting, Law (Mining), Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged 2012, conference, Tailings and Mine Waste, technical paper on January 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Project Objectives for Management of Tailings, Waste Rock, and Heap Leach Pads
Posted in communication, Heap leach, mining, Reclamation, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged hepa leah pad, project management, projective objectives, Tailings, Waste Rock on January 6, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Today I was criticized for failing to clearly set out the project objectives. Damn me, I know what we are setting out to do. “But the rest of us do not,” was the reply. And so I wrote out the project objectives in deliberate detail. And that set me writing the rest of this posting. [...]
Tailings and Mine Waste 2011 Materials Availability
Posted in Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged conference, daryl hockley, mine waste, Tailings on December 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A brief note from the Conference Secretariat of the recent conference on Tailings and Mine Waste 2011: We are pleased to notify you that many of the presentations from the Tailings and Mine Waste ’11 conference are available online through the InfoMine Library. Please note: only those presentations with permission from the authors have been [...]
Tailing and Mine Waste Conference Closure: How to Classify Tailings Facilites
Posted in Commodity, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged classification, filter pressed, mine waste, Tailings on November 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The classic texts on mine tailings generally start with division of tailings facilities into three types: Upstream, centerline, and downstream. I have not been able to track down with certainty who first formulated this classification. Today this division, based on the direction of movement of the crest of the outer embankment, is interesting, but not [...]
Tailings and Mine Waste Ended: There Be Dragons Out There
Posted in environmental, People, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged andy robertson, dragon, ed mcroberts, mine waste, nothung, siegfried, tailngs on November 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The conference on Tailings and Mine Waste 11 is ended and we can now sit back and reflect on what it all means. The easiest way to do this is to look at the PowerPoint slides from Andy Robertson’s keynote address. They are now on InfoMine at this link.
Tailings and Mine Waste 11 2
Posted in British Columbia, Oil sands, People, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged daryl hockley, michael davies, mine waste, sean wells, Tailings, Vancouver on November 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A great many great presentations yesterday at the Tailings and Mine Waste 11 Conference here in Vancouver. The keynote addresses were topical and provocative. There was applause when in reply to a question, Ransford Sekyi of Ghana said that artisanal miners dig and destroyed the environment and then move on to another place to dig and destroy, and [...]
Tailings & Mine Waste 1978 to 2011
Posted in Mining history, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged conference, mine waste, Tailings on June 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
November is just around the corner and that means we had best start writing our papers for the Tailings & Mine Waste 2011 conference to be held in Vancouver 6 November onwards.
Long-Term Stability of Closed Mine Tailings Piles: How So At Pebble?
Posted in consulting, environmental, Geotechnical, North America, Reclamation, safety, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged Alaska, closure, EPA, failure, mine, pebble, Tailings on February 25, 2011 | 6 Comments »
A slow morning and an even slower computer that took its sweet time downloading files. During the enforced no-compute period, I pulled out the proceedings of the Mine Closure 2010 Conference held in Chile in November 2010. I read a paper that had not previously caught my attention. I could not but stop to [...]
Mine Closure: EPA on Questa Mine, New Mexico
Posted in acid mine drainage, consulting, Mining history, North America, Reclamation, Waste Rock, tagged chevron, closure, John McCain, New Mexico, questa mine on December 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Looking back on the first ten years of the twenty-first century and what has happened in mining, we cannot ignore the emphasize on mine closure. There have been mine closure conferences, many technical papers, and even a few mine closures.
Good Mining Advertizing? Anglo angles watery appeals.
Posted in Community relations, Heap leach, Reclamation, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged advert, Anglo American, ladies hard hats, Pebble Mine, porn, water on November 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I have often railed against those unimaginative mining ads that show ladies in hard hats standing in front of a large truck, smiling as they try to look natural and in support of women in mining.
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