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Andrew van Zyl - May 2024
Publication - ArticleAmid an industry-wide shift towards more sustainable mining practices, engineering consultancy SRK Consulting says that the significance of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in mining has evolved over the past few decades.
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Ignacio Ezama, Francisco Moyano, Federico Giurich - June 2024
Publication - Published PaperThis paper aims to summarize the probabilistic methodology proposed in (Giurich & Ezama, 2022), compare it to existing methods for estimation of release volume and validate it by considering three past TSF failures (Aznalcóllar, Mount Polley and Feijao).
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Joe Rola, Mauro Giuliano Sottile, Lisandro Roldan, Alejo Sfriso, Nicolás Alejandro Rivas - June 2024
Publication - Published PaperThis paper describes the process of development and presents the full 3D ground model used as critical input to the stabilisation design of the dam.
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Lisandro Roldan, Mauro Giuliano Sottile, Florencia Spinazzola - June 2024
Publication - Published PaperThe objective of this work is to compare the performance of the BI (Boulanger & Idriss) and SOF (Saye, Olson, and Franke) methods, considering CPTu soundings performed in tailings from several TSFs around the world.
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Mauro Giuliano Sottile, Alejo Sfriso, Kevin Bernardo, Nicolás Tasso - June 2024
Publication - Published PaperThis paper presents a site-specific procedure to determine the state parameter of tailings, inspired in the work by Monforte (2022).
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Ignacio Ezama, Juana María Canavessi, Francisco Moyano - June 2024
Publication - Published PaperThe main idea of the study is to compare the extent of the flood footprint resulting from a historical tailings dam break with simulations of the flood, varying both outflow hydrograph and rheology parameters.
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Alluvial mining for diamonds started in India and for centuries alluvial mining was the primary source of diamonds.
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A method to calculate delay to acid rock drainage (ARD) using QEMSCAN mineralogical data from a 24-year site record of waste rock weathering conditions is presented in this case study of the Ulu gold project in Nunavut, Canada.
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SRK's Principal Consultant, Scott McEwing and Senior Consultant, Fraser McQueen speak on open pit mining engineering.
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On 23 June we celebrate International Women in Engineering Day and promote those in the field to increase awareness and encourage more women and girls to take up engineering careers. This year's theme is #enhancedbyengineering.
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