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Beach Boys and Girls – Mine Tailings Beach Pioneers and Innovators

Posted in Geology, Geotechnical, mining, Mining history, People, Tailings, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on April 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Beaches have a way of attracting attention.  Hoards of curvy North Americans flock each year to ocean-side resorts just to sit in pools and stare at beaches.  Early explorers travelling by sea sought coves with protected sandy beaches to land their parties and fly their flag.  Even whales and sharks, distracted by the bounty of [...]

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Roy L. Soderberg and his contribution to mine tailings

Posted in Mining history, People, Tailings, tagged , , , on April 2, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Abstracts for the Tailings and Mine Waste Conference 2012 to be held in Keystone, Colorado October 14-17, 2012  are due the end of this week. Here is one idea that should be written up, but probably won’t.  How about somebody out there volunteering.   How about a survey of the work that Roy Soderberg did for tailings.  I [...]

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Mine and Hazardous Waste Cells in the Desert

Posted in Geotechnical, Mining history, Tailings, tagged , , 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 [...]

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Gold Recovery from Unusual Mining Places

Posted in brandy, Gold, Investing & Finance, Mining history, opera, Uranium, tagged , , , , , , on March 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I do not know if the following is true:  my father used to say that the only person on the mine who is assured of a new facility is the mill manager.  The reason my father gave is this: when you rework the concrete foundations of the mill you recovery so much gold that it [...]

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The History of Tailings Filter-Pressing from SME’s One Mine

Posted in Mining history, Tailings, tagged , , , 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:

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Mining Subsidence and Loss of Water to Mines

Posted in Australia and New Zealand, Coal, environmental, Europe, Mining history, North America, Underground, tagged , , 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 [...]

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Mining Opera Redux: Domingo’s Dames and Marlin Maidens

Posted in Environment, Human relations and mining, Latin America, mining, Mining history, Peru, tagged , , , , , , , on March 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »

For about ten years until about 2005 I used to attend all the Los Angeles opera productions.  Placido Domingo was, and still is, in charge of the music.  Occasionally he would sing in an opera—what a thrill to see and hear him live.  I vaguely recall that in the program notes, there were news pieces [...]

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The Past & Future of Tailings Disposal

Posted in consulting, Gold, Mining history, People, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged , , , , 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 [...]

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Mining Explained from the Northern Miner

Posted in Environment, mining, Mining history, tagged , , , , on March 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

    A friend returned from the PDAC with a copy of Mining Explained as published by the Northern Miner.  The volume that I have just gone though is the eleventh edition prepared by the Northern Miners since 1939. 

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Bomvu Ridge and Groundwater Modelling in Mining

Posted in Africa, consulting, Geology, Geotechnical, Mining history, Open Pit, Software, tagged , , , on March 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

This is a story of a time before computers; before groundwater conceptual models, numerical models, baseline models, and predictive models; before groundwater model calibration, verification, or sensitivity analysis.  This is a story of a time when there was no such thing as a professional geohydrologist, hydrogeologists, or groundwater modeller. 

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