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…)
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 made available (look for “Presentation” in parenthesis)
We are also delighted to share the results from the facilitated discussions, led by SRK Corporate Consultant, Daryl Hockley. Please click here to see the results of this dynamic set of discussions.
Finally, InfoMine is pleased to present the Tailings and Mine Waste Continuous Conferences portal which is now active here. The purpose of the Continuous Conference is to enhance the exchange of information between practitioners in the field through papers, notes and a discussion forum.
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 entirely helpful and certainly not exhaustive. (more…)
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. (more…)
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 that they should be dealt with “with the full force of the law.” A bold approach that echoed the ongoing occupation of the Vancouver Art Gallery by what is rapidly degenerating into an unruly band of homeless ruffians biting the police who are trying to prevent a conflagration. (more…)
Posted in About the news, People, Tailings, tagged 11, daryl hockley, facilitation, mine waste, Tailings, todd martin on November 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The first day of the conference Tailings and Mine Waste is just ended, and here is a brief note on what I heard and learnt. (more…)
Posted in Mining history, Tailings, tagged conference, history, mine waste, Tailings, Vancouver on September 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Today the papers for the upcoming conference Tailings and Mine Waste 2011 went to the printer. The conference is in Vancouver November 6th and following. There are still about 40 places left to take full attendance to the limit of rooms size of 300. (more…)
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. (more…)
Posted in Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged 2010, conference, mine waste, Tailings, Vail on November 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Vail conference on Tailings & Mine Waste 2010 is past and the bound volume of proceedings is rapidly migrating to the back of the bookshelf. If you did not attend the conference and do not have a copy of the proceedings, here is how you can access many of the excellent presentations that were made during the conference. Simply click on this link and you will be taken to a listing of the PowerPoint presentations of those presenters who gave us permission to post on InfoMine. (more…)
Posted in Enviromental, environmental, Heap leach, Oil sands, Reclamation, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged Directive 74, ERCB, mine waste, Morgenstern, Oil sands, Sobokowicz, Tailings, Vail on October 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
These past two days we have been in sunny Vail, Colorado at the conference on tailings and mine waste. Sadly you will have to buy the volume from the organizers to read the papers. With a bit of patience, we will post some of the presentations on InfoMine in the near future. Meanwhile let us urge the authors to update their papers on the basis of new ideas gained here at the conference and hence paste their papers on their websites so that we may all more freely share in the information and lessons learnt. (more…)
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