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Adriaan Meintjes

Principal Geotechnical Engineer

BASED

Johannesburg, South Africa

CREDENTIALS

MSc, DIC, MEng, PrEng, FSAICE

LANGUAGES

English, Afrikaans

Adriaan Meintjes | Principal Geotechnical Engineer | Johannesburg, South Africa
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Adriaan has over 38 years of experience in civil and geotechnical engineering.

Adriaan started work at the CSIR in the Mechanical Engineering and then later in the Building Technology Division. Adriaan joined SRK in 1992 as part of the Geomechanics Group, involved with soil and rock engineering projects: these interests have been maintained. In the last 20 years Adriaan was working in the Tailings Department involved with tailings and slimes related projects in a large variety of commodities and in many countries with wide ranging climatic and seismic conditions.

Adriaan's Articles

Recent Disasters Thrust Tailings Dam Management to the Fore
Adriaan Meintjes

The tailings storage facility (TSF) failures at Mount Polley, in Canada, and at San Marco and Brumadinho, in Brazil, have altered how tailings engineering, construction and operations will be undertaken.

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More Sustainable Engineering Detail Now Needed in WULAs
Adriaan Meintjes

Ever-increasing pressure on water resources is leading to a greater focus on sustainable engineering detail in proposed water-related structures – a global trend now reflected locally in new water-use licence application (WULA) requirements.

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The Evolution Toward TSF Performance Monitoring
Adriaan Meintjes

There is no escaping the significance of what happened on January 25 this year at Vale’s Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

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

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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Adriaan's Projects

Nacala Rail Corridor

Nacala Rail Corridor

Project Management for Rail Construction

Project Management
Malawi
Work on the 140 km line included scheduling, quality monitoring, and environmental management

Consultants in Related Fields

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Michael Dabiri

Michael Dabiri

Vancouver, Canada
Michael has 15 years of experience specializing in mine water and waste (tailings) management.
Daniel Neuffer

Daniel Neuffer

Vancouver, Canada
Dan has 23 years of experience focusing on engineering, construction, operation, and closure of tailings, mine waste, heap leach, and mine water facilities.
Diana Reyes

Diana Reyes

Reno, USA
Diana has 17 years of diversified professional experience in geotechnical and earthquake engineering.
Breese Burnley

Breese Burnley

Reno, USA
Breese has spent more than 25 years in engineering design and environmental permitting services for the mining and solid waste industries.