Tailings Management Handbook | A Life-Cycle Approach - Chapter 7 In-Pit Tailings Management; written by Matt Fuller of Tierra Group International and Michael Gabora of FloSolutions
Download PublicationABSTRACT: Minera Pangea recently completed a feasibility study (FS) for an in-pit tailing storage facility (IPTSF) that will receive tailings from reprocessing of approximately 10 million tonnes of heap leach material (HLM). The HLM from the existing El Gallo heap leach…
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The mining industry was traumatized by the Feijão tailings dam failure in Minas Gerais (Brumadinho), Brazil on 25 January 2019. The Feijão failure occurred a mere 38 months since the Fundao tailings dam failure (also in Minas Gerais) in November…
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Following the August 2014 Mt. Polly tailings dam breach in British Columbia, Canada, the British Columbia Government, through the Ministry of Energy and MInes, together with the Williams Lake Indian Band and the Soda Creek Indian Band, chartered an independent…
Download PublicationABSTRACT: Implementing a Corporate Tailings Stewardship Strategy begins in the Board Room with a corporate pledge to zero-tailings dam failures and, like a safety culture, extends throughout the organization to the boots-on-the-ground TSF operations team personnel. Tierra Group International, Ltd.'s…
Download PublicationABSTRACT: acquiring new properties to increase production is a strategy for growing your mining business and, not unlike buying a used car, caveat emptor (let the buyer beware). It is leadership's responsibility to protect assets, reduce liabilities and mitigate or…
Download PublicationABSTRACT: The use of geosynthetic clay liners (GCLs) as a component of composite liner systems in landfills, ponds, heap leach facilities, and tailings impoundments has increased significantly over the past five to ten years. Field observations (Thiel and Richardson, 2005 and…
Download PublicationABSTRACT: The solution collection system commonly used in heap leach facilities consists of a basal drainage layer of crushed rock (overliner) and embedded perforated pipes installed above the geomembrane and below the ore heap. The solution percolates vertically downward through the…
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