Tailings and Mine Waste 2015

Tailings and Mine Waste 2015 - Cover- Final
1. Tailings Management and Stewardship
Contents
Wilson, GW - The value of failure
Rogers, J - Influence of tailings deposition environment on deposit homogeneity and interpretation of cone penetration test data
Fuller, M - Tailings stewardship – genuine corporate responsibility
Robertson, AM - Tailings facility review and evaluation standards
Barrera, S - Reassessment of tailings best available management practices
Boswell, J - International Tailings Failures and Best Available Technology
Cox, B - Leading practice in tailings planning for high-throughput mining operations
Ulrich, B - Combined tailings and mine waste
Valdebenito, R - Design and operation of a thickened tailings disposal (TTD)
Doucet, K - Thickened tailings characterization program for a tailings storage
Caldwell, J - Filter-pressed tailings facility design, construction, and operating guidelines
Gowan, MJ - Dewatered tailings disposal ­ a cost effective alternative to wet disposal
Perreault, NN - Tailings, managing for the future
Small, CC - Assessing reclamation ready tailings materials using outdoor terrestrial mesocosms
Wilson, GW - Designing tailings and waste rock systems for closure
Langseth, J - Placement of caps on soft and fluid tailings
Fasking, T - Risk informed methodology to prioritize responses associated with mine waste
Hill, JR - Improvement of geotechnical and environmental conditions of mine tailings facilities by pre-fabricated
2. Consolidation and Compression of Tailings
Chen, F - Numerical modeling of the sedimentation process using coupled discrete element method and computational fluid dynamics
Jeeravipoolvarn, S - Revisiting the large strain consolidation test for oil sands
Znidarcic, D - If it creeps, does it matter
Chaudhary, K - Benchmarking of large-strain consolidation, sedimentation, and creep process for oil-sands tailings
Contreras, I - Strength gain of fine tailings-slimes resulting from secondary compression
Shokouhi, A - Settling and consolidation behaviour of coal tailings slurry under continuous loading
Ibanez, M - Optimizing dewatering and soft tailings consolidation by enhancing
Boswell, JES - Oil sands thickened tailings ­ remedies from an international perspective
Fredlund, M - Pseudo 3-D deposition and large-strain consolidation modeling of tailings deep deposits
3. Tailings failures and breach analysis
Martin, V - Challenges with conducting tailng dam breach studies
Strachan, C - The role of water management in tailings dam incidents
Fontaine, D - Tailings mobilization estimates for dam breach studies
Caldwell, J - Tailings facility failures in 2014 and an update on failure statistics
Akkermann, A - Assessing credible modes of failure - Afton TSF dam breach study
4. Waste Rock
StArnault, M - In-depth lithological and weathering profile of a waste rock dump
Fredlund, M - Modeling of seepage through segregating waste rock part II
Horton, J - Variability of aamples from various drilling and sampling methods
Williams, DJ - An attempt to estimate waste rock and soil shear strengths based upon strengths of intact rock cores
5. Geotechnical
Lee, YB - Numerical analysis of effect of mitigation measures on seismic performance of a liquefiable tailings dam foundation
Pérez, K - Procedures for estimating seismic permanent displacements on tailings storage facilities and mine waste dumps
Williams, DJ - Selection of shear strength profile for desiccated tailings to support an upstream raise
Castillo, J - Numerical model comparison on deformation behavior of a TSF embankment subjected to earthquake loading
6. Oil sands
Wells, PS - Slurry to soil clay behaviour model – using methylene blue to cross the process-geotechnical engineering divide
Poindexter, MK - Geotechnical column evaluation of new flocculant technology for dewatering oil sands mature fine tailings
Yang, X -Tubifex - a biological method for dewatering oil sands tailings
Znidarcic, D - RheomaxR ETD technology a laboratory study of application performance  and associated geotechnical characteristics for polymer assisted tailings deposition of oil sands MFT
Nicolaisen, J - Oil sands tailings management projects
Mortimer, J - Improved tailings deposition management – an understanding of process variables
7. Treatment
Tamburini, JR - Designing and constructing a mine water treatment facility to remove multiple contaminants
Romaniuk, N - Residual bitumen recovery from oil sand tailings with lime
Garcia, P - Electrokinetic treatment of oil sands tailings
Martin, AJ - Modelling of pit lake filling scenarios using a coupled physical and biogeochemical model
Swenson, JB -  Assessing controls on sodium accumulation in oil sands process waters and tailings
8. Case studies
Kurylo, JB - Building on soft tailings - east lake TMF expansion
Wilke, M - Efficient and environmentally sustainable tailings treatment and storage by geosynthetic dewatering tubes - working principles and talvivaara case study
Schmidt, B - Satellite monitoring of a large tailings storage facility
Reid, D - Characterizing the stiff clay foundation soil below a TSF in Western Australia
Campaña, J - Quillayes sand tailings dam in Chile design and operation
Reid,D - Assessing the effects of polymer treatment – segregation considerations
Tong, A - Geosynthetics in closure - the underdog that could be a winner
Tortelli, G -Tailings dams in Nevada – an overview
Sadighian, A -Investigation of the role of the viscosity of the suspending fluid on pipe wear erosion during coarse particle (settling) slurry transport
Guang, R - Application of flume testing to field-scale beach slope prediction
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