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18 November 2009
Tailings dam failures and the price of commodities
A couple of weeks ago the University of Alberta hosted a conference entitled “Tailings and Mine Waste 2009“. Impressively, all of the presentations from the meeting have been posted online on an FTP site here. Most of the presentations focus upon technical aspects of tailings facility design, but there is a very interesting talk from Michael Davis and Todd Martin from AMEC online as a pdf here. This presentation examines …
1 March 2009
A useful tailings dam failure resource
Image of the Merriespruit Tailings Dam failure in South Africa (image from Tailings.org) In the last year I have twice posted extensively about particular tailings dams failures and the resulting flowslides. The events in question were the 8th September 2008 Taoshi failure in Shaanxi, China and the 22nd December 2008 Tennessee Valley Authority failure in at the Kingston fossil plant in Harriman, Tennessee, USA. The WISE Uranium project has some …
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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