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Nordie Morgenstern on Oil Sand Tailings Ponds
Nordie Morgenstern is well known to all who work in the oil sands tailings industry. He sits on the geotechnical peer review boards of both Syncrude and Suncor. He travels the world consulting to...
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Tailings and Mine Waste 2010
These past two days we have been in sunny Vail, Colorado at the conference on tailings and mine waste. Sadly you will have to buy the volume from the organizers to read the papers. With a bit of...
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Oil Sands Tailings Conference, Directive 74, and an Oil Sands Cooperative...
The Second International Oil Sands Tailings conference is underway in Edmonton, Alberta. Here is my summary of two days of listening to presentations. Two years ago the focus was on consolidated...
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Geosynthetics in Covers Over Soft Mine Tailings: Mine Closure or Access to...
Geosynthetics have been used in constructing covers and access roads over soft tailings at the Cannon Mine, Wenatchee, at impoundments at Wismut, and most recently at Pond 5 at the Suncor oil sands...
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Tailings Co-Disposal by Mike Gowan
A great idea, but hard to do practically. I refer to the practice called Co-Disposal of tailings and waste rock. Mike Gowan, a principal of Golder Associates in Brisbane is probably the expert....
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Marketing Mining Services in North America. Us and Exxpleo.
When we arrived in North America we envisaged a great career consulting to the mining industry. We had been successful consultants in South Africa providing many services to many mines. We gave...
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Soil and Tailings Strength: Not 5kPa nor 10 kPa as is the Directive 74 Mistake.
Most engineers have no idea what the strength of a soil or tailings implies. Let me write a little about the physicality of soil and tailings of a given strength. Tailings with a strength of 1 kPa is...
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Mt Polley: Directive 74 or Bust
I have written extensively in this blog about the Alberta Directive 74. Generally I have been derogatory about the Directive. For example at this link I write the following: That incredibly silly...
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