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Leonardo De Bona Becker, Maria do Carmo Reis Cavalcanti and Alfredo Affonso Monteiro Marques
Tailings dam accidents emphasize the importance of an adequate understanding of the strength parameters of tailings to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the design, construction, and operation of such structures. Usually, the tailings strength ...
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Nilo Cesar Consoli, Jordanna Chamon Vogt, João Paulo Sousa Silva, Helder Mansur Chaves, Hugo Carlos Scheuermann Filho, Eclesielter Batista Moreira and Andres Lotero
Failures of tailings dams, primarily due to liquefaction, have occurred in Brazil in recent years. These events have prompted the Brazilian government to place restrictions on the construction of new dams, as iron ore tailings deposited behind upstream d...
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María Luisa Álvarez, Ana Méndez, Roberto Rodríguez-Pacheco, Jorge Paz-Ferreiro and Gabriel Gascó
In Spain, there are more than 733 million tons of tailings stored in tailing dams. In addition, there is an undetermined volume of oxidized metal mineral dumps for which an application has not been found. We consider that the study of alternative and env...
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Olga Zubkova, Aleksey Alexeev, Arseniy Polyanskiy, Kirill Karapetyan, Olga Kononchuk and Markus Reinmöller
The solution of the sludge utilization problem and yield increase at processing plants have great importance today all over the world. Disasters associated with the tailings dams failures have madeus develop technologies of tailings sludge utilization as...
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Rosendo Mendoza, Julián Martínez, Javier Rey, M. Carmen Hidalgo and M. José Campos-Suñol
This study analyses the distribution of the total metal(loid)s content accumulated in the sediments of the Grande River, the most important river course that runs through the old mining district of La Carolina (Jaén, Spain), whose waters are collected in...
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Xiaofei Jing, Yulong Chen, Dan Xie, David J. Williams, Shangwei Wu, Wensong Wang and Tianwei Yin
Due to the differences in mineral processing techniques, the grain-size of tailings used in the construction of a tailings pond is not commensurate. It has been determined that the hydrodynamic characteristics of mudflow resulting from the failure of tai...
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Xingang Wang, Hongbin Zhan, Jiading Wang and Ping Li
Instability of tailings dams may result in loss of life and property and serious environmental pollution. The position of the tailings dam?s phreatic line varies due to continuously changing factors such as rainfall infiltration and discharge of tailings...
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Paulina Concha Larrauri and Upmanu Lall
This paper presents a statistical model to estimate the volume of released tailings (VF) and the maximum distance travelled by the tailings (Dmax) in the event of a tailings dam failure, based on physical parameters of...
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Tamiru Abiye and Ignatius Shaduka
The study focused on the seepage of uranium from unlined tailing dams into the alluvial aquifer in the Gawib River floodplain in Namibia where the region solely relies on groundwater for its economic activities as a result of arid climatic condition. The...
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Tobius Thobile Poswa and Theophilus Clavell Davies
It is well recognized that the mining industry in South Africa is highly rated for its substantial contribution to the country?s economic growth, including employment and infrastructural development. It is also known that mining and ore processing activi...
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