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 [...]
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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 »
The Past & Future of Tailings Disposal
Posted in consulting, Gold, Mining history, People, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged george donaldson, golder assoiates, Mike Gowan, slime dam, Tailings on March 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Mike Gowan of Golder Associates in Australia has enabled me to post at this link a PowerPoint presentation of a talk he gave earlier this month in South Africa. At the link is the PowerPoint in pdf format. It is a big file and may take time to download, but persist, for the wait is worth the reward once you [...]
SME on Fuzzy Logic in Selecting a Mine’s Waste Dump Site
Posted in Waste Rock, tagged fuzzy logic, vikor, waste rock dump, yazadni-chamzini on February 29, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The CD containing some of the papers presented at the SME conference in Seattle two weeks ago has just appeared on my desk. There are at least twenty papers that I will read and write about. For now let me discuss the first to catch my attention, namely Waste Dump Site Selection by Using Fuzzy [...]
Groundwater Modeling in Decision Making About Mine Tailings, Waste Rock, and Heap Leach Facilities
Posted in acid mine drainage, brandy, consulting, environmental, Geotechnical, Heap leach, Software, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged decision making, groundwater, Heap leach, modelling, Tailings, Waste Rock on February 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Introduction Today I went to HR Block and had my taxes calculated. It is a disaster: I owe lots and the total taxes I paid is more than the average Canadian salary. I am seriously considering selling up and moving to Las Vegas. And stopping working. Why work to merely pay great sums to the government [...]
Conceptual Models for Mining Analysis and Decision Making
Posted in consulting, Open Pit, Software, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged conceptual model, decision making, mining on February 25, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Conceptual models are key aspects of mine modelling, analysis, and decision making. With our limited thinking ability, we need concepts, or models, of reality before we can fully comprehend, understand, and mentally manipulate reality.
Design A Mine Waste Facility: Guidance From Wisconsin
Posted in acid mine drainage, environmental, Law (Mining), mining, Tailings, Underground, Waste Rock, tagged law, Reclamation, Tailings, Waste Rock, Wisconsin on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Wisconsin legislature has just posted a proposed new law on mining in the state. The full document is available at this link. At 191 pages it is not a short read; but it is a must-read. And it is a fascinating read. It is serious and sometimes frivolous. Consider these sections that caught my eye on [...]
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 »
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?
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 [...]
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