Browsing the web earlier this week I came across the site of the South African Department of Water Affairs. There I found the following Best Practice Guidelines relevant to mine water management: (more…)
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Mine Water Management Best Practice Guidelines and EduMine Webcast
Posted in acid mine drainage, consulting, Enviromental, People, Tailings, Underground, Waste Rock, tagged best practice guidelines, DWA, edumine, mine water management, South Africa on April 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
The Pencil and Engineering Design for Mining
Posted in consulting, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged henry petroski, ore stockpile, pencil, tailings facility on March 2, 2013 | 1 Comment »
On a series of flight to and from a distant mine, I read a great deal on the history and manufacture of the pencil. The book I read is called The Pencil and is by Henry Petroski a professor of civil engineering at Duke University. He writes regularly for the American Scientist; I follow his writings there and in his many other books on the design process in engineering. (more…)
Mine Water Conferences and Webcasts: EduMine on Mine Water Management
Posted in acid mine drainage, People, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged bc guidelines, edumine, groundwater. modeling, mine water management, surface water on February 23, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Management of mine waters is the topic of the day. Conferences crop up like springs in a wet place. Here are those I find for 2013. There are probably many more being planned for 2014. (more…)
Tailings, tailings & mine waste, paste, thickened tailings, managing mine waters, and heap leach 2013
Posted in mining, Oil sands, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged heap leach 2013, mine water solutions 2013, paste and thickened tailings 2013, tailings 2013, tailings and mine waste 2013 on December 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Just received word of another conference on tailings to be held in 2013. The new one is the First International Seminar on Tailings Management. It is planned for 28 to 30 August in the Sheraton Hotel in Santiago, Chile. (more…)
California Quarries and the Future of Mining
Posted in blogs, brandy, California, environmental, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged California, conference, desalination, makeup water, quarry on November 21, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Another day of webcasts on mining and yet another long argument over the future of mining. We opined in the webcast that filter-pressed tailings is the only way to go with the future of tailings: if a mine cannot afford the costs, they should not begin, for they will not be able to end. Unless they can afford an embankment dam of compacted, durable rock and closure to a site that becomes a place where the rich may recreate like at Cannon Mine that is now a riding stable for the rich. (more…)
What Do Civil & Geootechnical Engineers Do at Mines and for Mining?
Posted in brandy, Jobs and Salaries, mining, Mining history, Open Pit, Tailings, Underground, Waste Rock, tagged cannon mine, civil engineer, geotechnical engineer, Jweneng, mining, rock mechanics, soil mechanics on November 10, 2012 | 5 Comments »
There is more civil engineering in mining than there is mining engineering in mining. To substantiate this controversial statement let me repeat below something I wrote a long time ago. (more…)
EduMine Tailings Courses: Passing on the Tourch of Knowledge & Experience
Posted in About the news, Geotechnical, Heap leach, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged edumine, Heap leach, mine waste, Tailings on October 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A very old friend, now prominent in Australian mining spent the weekend with me. We drank expensive whiskey, which he paid for, and rode many miles on my bikes around Vancouver on a fine sunny fall day. We recounted stories of the old days in South Africa as young & inexperienced engineers and how we solved problems by gut feel rather than knowledge and computer models. (more…)
Long-Term Covers for Tailings Facilities, Waste Rock Dumps, Heap Leach Dumps
Posted in brandy, Enviromental, Reclamation, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged cover, geomembranes, long term, Tailings, waste rock dump. hjeap leach on September 21, 2012 | 9 Comments »
Almost every day I am asked or confronted by this question: what is the best cover for a tailings facility? (more…)
Water Balance Covers For Waste Containment
Posted in environmental, People, Reclamation, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged albright, benson, cover, water balance, waugh on August 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Water Balance Covers for Waste Containment: Principles and Practice by William Albright, Craig Benson, and Joseph Waugh landed on my desk this week. And a great book it is. (more…)
PDust Control at Mines
Posted in Enviromental, environmental, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged dust. control, mines on June 18, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Home at last after nearly three weeks away in places where mining is flourishing. Too much going out delayed blogging. Here is one piece of advice I got while working and partying. It pertains to control of dust on mines. (more…)
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