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- Title
General Properties of Commingled Materials for Mix Designs.
- Authors
Barsi, David; Wilson, G. Ward
- Abstract
Tailings volumes continue to collectively increase worldwide, leading to larger dams and tailings management facilities. With numerous high-profile dam failures in the past decade, the risks of these management practices are also growing. A potential shift to waste management practices at mineral mines is to commingle waste rock and dewatered tailings. This blended material should have superior physical strength properties provided by the waste rock together with improved chemical stability characteristics associated with the low permeability of the tailings. Ideally, commingled tailings and waste rock can be used to construct various mined earth landforms that are both physically and chemically stable, which will enhance operational performance and ultimately provide for the sustainable decommissioning and closure of the mining facility. To study these materials, the University of Alberta Geotechnical Centre is working with global industry partners to test commingled materials from several mine sites with varying ore and host rock types and climate regimes. The first stage of this study is described here and is focused on the optimum density, saturated hydraulic conductivity, and soil–water characteristic curves of various blend ratios, performed at laboratory scale.
- Subjects
UNIVERSITY of Alberta; METAL tailings; TAILINGS dams; MINE closures; HYDRAULIC conductivity; WASTE management; CHEMICAL stability; DAM failures
- Publication
Minerals (2075-163X), 2024, Vol 14, Issue 1, p30
- ISSN
2075-163X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/min14010030