Paste 2025

 

SRK Consulting is excited to announce our participation at the Paste 2025 in Namibia from 8-10 April 2025. Our team of skilled professionals will be on hand to connect with delegates and provide valuable insights into the tailings management industry. 

Meet our team of tailings engineers from South Africa, Australia, North America, UK, and South America at booth #16.

SRK's Colleen Crystal will present on a review of alternative dewatering technologies for application to South African platinum tailings and Jose Riquelme will be presenting on local sensitivity analysis of fitting parameters for water retention curve in unsaturated flow models in filtered tailings.

On Friday 11 April, SRK's specialists will also be presenting at the workshop on Filtered Tailings Management – Planning, Design, Construction, and Operation.

 

Meet SRK Team

SRK Canada

Colleen Crystal (Principal Geotechnical Engineer), Raul Norambuena Mardones (Senior Civil/Geotechnical Engineer)

SRK Australia

Joe Rola (Principal Tailings Engineer), Thomas Saint (Senior Tailings Engineer)

SRK United Kingdom

Murray McGreger (Corporate Consultant, Due Diligence), Liam MacNanama (Principal Mineral Processing Engineer)

SRK Chile 

Jose Ignacio Riquelme (Senior Geotechnical Engineer)

SRK Kazakhstan 

Colin Wessels (Principal Tailings Engineer)

SRK South Africa (Johannesburg)

Malcolm Maber (Principal Geotechnical Engineer / Partner), Simone Luis (Civil Engineer), Sthembiso Hadebe (Geotechnical Engineer), Karla Moll (Civil Engineer)

Short Course

Filtered Tailings Management – Planning, Design, Construction, and Operation

Friday, April 11, 2025, 08:30 AM - 05:00 PM CAT

This workshop will focus on the practical application of filtered tailings management, facility design, and operations. Current standard-of-practices in planning, design, fundamental geotechnics, construction concepts and approaches, and operations of filtered tailings storage facilities will be covered.

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Technical Talk

Local Sensitivity Analysis of Fitting Parameters for Water Retention Curve in Unsaturated Flow Models in Filtered Tailings

Wednesday, April 09, 2025, 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

This presentation will provided a detailed insight into the influence of the fitting parameters of the water retention curve (WRC) on the unsaturated flow behaviour in filtered tailings from northern Chile, specifically for a particular case in a one-dimensional unsaturated flow model through an extensive local sensitivity analysis.

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From Conceptual Design to Progressive Closure of a Dry-Stack in a High Seismic and Tropical Setting: a Case History

Thursday, April 10, 2025, 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM

This presentation will provide a case-study overview of the 2,500 tpd operation, summarizing the pre and post-startup observational method approach to both tailings characterization, placement, handling and compaction specifications refinement, ongoing geotechnical monitoring and lessons from the progressive closure procedures and challenges of the actual versus originally conceived construction approaches for this project.

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