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Solid Waste Landfills

Breese Burnley, Evan Nikirk

Publication - SRK News Article

Since the late 1990s, SRK Reno has been providing solid waste landfill design and permitting services for small municipalities in Nevada, Utah, and California.

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Experience Gained From Tailings Dam Audits

Adriaan Meintjes

Publication - SRK News Article

Recently SRK was requested to review 15 old tailings dams in Zambia and evaluate the work required to close them.

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South America: Grainsize Distribution Monitoring

SRK Belo Horizonte

Publication - SRK News Article

SRK has been involved in various studies relating to river dynamics for a confidential client to inform decisions on the reclamation of watercourses impacted by mining activities.

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So, You Have It Crushed And On A Conveyor - Now What? Optimizing Value Through Ore Sorting

Bob McCarthy - November 2014

Publication - Presentation

Discussion of ore sorting, crushing, and conveying, including analysis of current technologies, applications, and optimization opportunities and constraints.

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Innovative Mixed Reality Approach to Rock Mass Mapping in Underground Mining

Wayne Barnett, Emre Onsel, Emre Onsel, et al - December 2020

Publication

Innovative Mixed Reality Approach to Rock Mass Mapping in Underground Mining

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Mining Data Underground

Robert Urie, Noel Dyson - February 2021

Publication - Article

Principal Mining Engineer Rob Urie was interviewed by Australian Mining Monthly's Noel Dyson for this four-part series on the future of underground mining. Part four tackles the challenge of retrieving and utilising big data in an underground environment.

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The Impact of Considering the Vertical Seismic Coefficient (kv) on the Pseudo-Static Slope Stability Analysis of Downstream Cohesionless Tailings Sand Dams

Camilo Morales, Carolina Palma, Alberto Bard - November 2021

Publication - Published Paper

In Chile, the limit equilibrium analysis under pseudo-static conditions is compulsory according to the Supreme Decree 248 (DS248), which establishes a minimum factor of safety (FoS) of 1.2 for stability analysis.

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Flow Liquefaction Triggering Analyses of a Tailings Storage Facility by Means of a Simplified Numerical Procedure

Mauro Giuliano Sottile, Alejo Sfriso, Arcesio Lizcano, Osvaldo Ledesma, Ignacio A. Cueto - May 2022

Publication - Published Paper

Recent failures of upstream-raised tailings storage facilities (TSF) resulted in higher standards required by the mining industry on assessing the risk of tailings flow liquefaction.

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Numerical Modelling of the Interaction between Tailings and a Penstock Tower

Mauro Giuliano Sottile, Alejo Sfriso, Graham Howell, Florencia Spinazzola - November 2021

Publication - Published Paper

Penstock towers are intake structures built within tailings storage facilities to manage water during operation. This study aims to understand how tailings consolidation and its subsequent drag-down forces affects the stresses acting on the tower throughout its life span.

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Procedure for Assessing the Liquefaction Vulnerability of Tailings Dams

Osvaldo Ledesma, Alejo Sfriso, Diego Manzanal - January 2022

Publication - Published Paper

This work presents a procedure for assessing the liquefaction vulnerability of tailings dams systems (including the retention structure, retained materials, and foundation).

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