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- 2Sego, Dave (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 2Sego, David (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
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- 1Lefsrud, Lianne (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
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Spring 2023
Characterizing infiltration through acid generating waste rock is essential in addressing critical environmental issues attributed to mining activities. At it’s peak operation, Faro Mine in Yukon, Canada was one of the world’s largest lead and zinc mines, where 320 million tonnes of waste rock...
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Spring 2015
A large amount of fluid fine tailings (FFT) is stored in tailings ponds and is continuously accumulating from the extraction of bitumen from oil sands ore in northern Alberta. The FFT are high in water content and have a very slow dewatering behavior that requires many years for them to fully...
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Examining Historical Climate with Respect to Future Permafrost and Engineering Design: An Analysis of Common Assumptions and Calculations
DownloadFall 2012
This paper examines changes in climate with respect to permafrost and engineering design in Arctic regions. Current understanding of climate changes, predictive modeling, and climate data were studied. Inconsistencies and differences were noted, discussed, and evaluated using comparisons of the...
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Fall 2014
In recent years, the oil sands industry has been investigating alternatives to the conventional tailings management practice to address the accumulation of large volumes of mature fine tailings (MFT) and abide by new government regulations in the province of Alberta. The main goals are to achieve...
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Spring 2013
This study is a part of a field experiment constructed at the Diavik Diamond Mine in northern Canada to investigate water flow, geochemical reactions, thermal and gas transport within unsaturated piles of mine waste rock in a continuous permafrost permafrost. Diavik waste rock is categorized by...
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Risk Management for Tailings Dam Safety: Considerations for Long-term and Post-closure Timelines
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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...