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Spring 2016
A study was implemented to evaluate different alternatives of soil cover systems for the closure of approximately 1539 Mt of waste rock at the Antamina Mine (Peru). The soil covers were designed to limit water percolation to the underlying waste rock, by combining a store/release and low...
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Spring 2019
This thesis aims to demonstrate the feasibility of using System Dynamics (SD) techniques to develop a transparent, open-source and reproducible model capable of simulating long-term soil water dynamics in a tailings-cap system subject to upward flux from a consolidating tailings substrate. The...
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Spring 2022
This study investigated the mechanisms driving the dewatering and strength behaviour of polymer amended treated (centrifuged and in-line thickened tailings/ILTT) deep tailings deposits undergoing seasonal weathering dominated by a) multiple freeze-thaw cycles and b) alternating freeze-thaw and...
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Fall 2017
The focus of the research presented here was to directly measure actual evaporation rates from a tailings surface using a micrometeorological technique known as the eddy covariance method. Depending on the results, it would be determined whether current drying models need to be calibrated with...
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Risk Management for Tailings Dam Safety: Considerations for Long-term and Post-closure Timelines
DownloadFall 2022
Post-closure tailings dams are expected to remain on mine sites in perpetuity following mine closure. Combined with the lack of knowledge regarding how tailings dams will evolve over time, these long-time frames necessitate the development of risk management practices. The purpose of this...