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Mauro Tailings Dam Tunnels

Geotechnical and Engineering Design

Project - Chile

Produced designs, technical specifications, and cost estimates for 4 tunnels from 2.4 to 3.5 km long

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Tailings Dams Technology: Learning From Failure (Part 3)

Adriaan Meintjes - March 2019

Publication - Article

In his third article on tailings storage facilities, Adriaan Meintjes looks at how technology can address the challenges.

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Dams With Frozen Components: Fit For Purpose Tailings Management Solutions

John Kurylo, Kendell Cator, Maritz Rykaart, Cameron Hore - October 2018

Publication - Article

The tailings management system for the Hope Bay Project, in Nunavut, Canada, includes sub-aerial tailings deposition into the Doris tailings impoundment area (Doris TIA).

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Frozen Core Dam Performance: Four Years Post Construction

Megan Miller, Maritz Rykaart - October 2016

Publication - Article

As part of the tailings management system for the Doris Project in Nunavut Canada, a frozen core dam was constructed in 2012 on a foundation of thick ice-rich, saline glacial marine silt and clay, and fine sand.

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South America: Tucano Gold

SRK Global - July 2015

Publication

From 2010 to 2015, SRK undertook the feasibility, detail design and construction supervision of the Tap D in-pit tailings facility for the Tucano gold project in Brazil.

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In Situ Leaching Or In Situ Recovery

Vladimir Ugorets, Vladimir Ugorets, Dmitry Yermakov - January 2013

Publication

In situ leaching (ISL), also known as in situ recovery, is a low capital-cost method of extracting uranium, copper or potash from suitable deposits

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Design of an HDPE-lined Platinum Tailings Facility in South Africa

Linda Spies - February 2020

Publication - Presentation

Although there are many environmental benefits to the inclusion of a liner in a tailings dam, this does increase the complexity of the design, construction and operation of the tailings dam.

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Consultancy Rolls Out Automated Measuring Network

Andrew van Zyl, Lyzandra Boshoff, Lisl Fair - May 2020

Publication - Article

"Consulting engineers and scientist SRK Consulting is rolling out automated vibrating wire piezometers (VWPs) on tailings facilities", says SRK Consulting principal engineering geologist Lyzandra Boshoff.

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Last Line of Defense – A Dam Breach Detection System

Ignacio García Schmidt, Erik Ketilson, and Darryl Godley - November 2020

Publication - Article

In conjunction with RST Instruments, SRK has developed a new, cost-effective system to trigger an alarm at the onset of an earthen dam breach and warn the population in the flood area when a dam shows signs of failing.

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Dry Stack Design in Finland and Sweden

Jamie Spiers - May 2021

Publication - Article

Advances in tailings dewatering technologies (such as pressure filtration) has led to an expansion in options for safe and efficient storage of tailings in arctic environments.

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