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Víctor Merino

 Consultant - Santiago, Chile

Víctor has over 25 years of experience in large-scale mining operations in Chile, he has participated and led consulting projects in mine planning, project evaluation, due diligences and technical reports in compliance with international standards, among other works.

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Landfills and Solid Waste

 Service

Optimize the handling, transport, and disposal of your solid or hazardous waste through our risk-based design approach

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Prevention of Spontaneous Combustion in Spoil Piles and Waste Rock Dumps

 Event - Online

Join us for this free webinar illustrating how to prevent spontaneous combustion of mine wastes at open-cut mines.

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Capturing Slope Data

Karl Llewelyn - September 2015

Publication - Published Paper

Photo­grammetry is a remote data capture system that uses digital photo­grammetry to produce accurate 3­D structural models of mine features.

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Finding Sustainable Ways To Resettle Communities

Adel Malebana, Jessica Edwards - March 2020

Publication - Article

In December 2019, the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) published its Draft Mine Community Resettlement Guidelines for comment.

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Implication of Permafrost on Hydrogeological Conditions and on Mine Environment Controls: Case of Amaam Coking Coal Project in North-Eastern Russia

Sylvie Ogier-Halim, Tim Berry and Jurgen Schaeffer - September 2013

Publication - Presentation

Permafrost is defined as ground (soil or rock and including ice or organic material) that remains at or below 0°C for at least two consecutive years.

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Tailings Dams Technology – Learning From Failure (Part 2): Mines Rethink Safety Measures

Adriaan Meintjes - February 2019

Publication - Article

In the past few years, there has been renewed interest in finding ways to make tailings storage facilities (TSFs) safer, following very significant failures at facilities like Mount Polley in Canada and Fundão in Brazil, writes Adriaan Meintjes.

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Tailings Dam Technology: Learning From Failure (Part 1)

Adriaan Meintjes - February 2019

Publication - Article

Water security makes tailings dam technology a key hurdle for South Africa’s mining growth, writes Adriaan Meintjes.

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North America: Caving

SRK Vancouver

Publication - SRK News Article

In the past three decades, modern mechanised cave mining has proven to be a successful mining method for the exploitation of large low-grade deposits that could not otherwise be economically extracted.

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Selection Criteria For Two Alternative Thickened Slurries To Be Deposited Over Conventional Tailings: Storage Capacity And Liquefaction

Pepe Moreno, C J Hore - June 2014

Publication

Depositing thickened tailings over a conventional deposit leads to a raft of considerations and risks relating to the interaction of the two layers , and these must be identified before making the significant financial investment involved in changing a disposal system.

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