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Mine Risk Planning Includes Closure & Beyond: A Roundtable Discussion

Jeff Parshley

This roundtable, with five international mine closure experts, tackles some of the most significant risks associated with mine closure including long-term, possibly perpetual, post-closure management, challenges in estimating closure costs, and how improving standards and guidance can assist companies in mitigating closure risks and improve transparency with stakeholders.

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Enabling Climate Resilience with Climate Change Physical Risk Assessments

Samantha Barnes

The mining industry is facing a shift in reporting requirements, including a stronger need to identify and evaluate climate-related risks and adaptation actions.

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Leakage Collection and Recovery From Double-Lined Process Water Ponds and Tailings Impoundments

David Bentel

A leakage collection and recovery system (LCRS) for process water ponds and some tailings impoundments typically incorporates a two-layered synthetic liner with drainage media between the layers to drain and dissipate any leakage through primary liner, preventing leakage through

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Solitude Tailings Landform: An Integrated Buttress and Landform Design for a Closed Tailings Facility

Dave Ludwick, Camden Buechler

The focus of the recent study was to optimize the preferred alternative and confirm a final design for construction. This paper describes the implementation of an erosion resistant landform design, the practical use of WEPP as a 2D landform screening tool.

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Python Soil Test Script for FLAC

The Python-FLAC scripts are a convenient solution to simulate basic soil lab tests (monotonic and cyclic loadings) using a single element in FLAC3D without a prior knowledge of Python or FISh (programming language used in FLAC3D).

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Reviewing Laubscher's Empirical Method to Estimate Subsidence Limits

Andy Thomas, Jarek Jakubec, Constanza Contreras, Davide Elmo

This paper explains the limitations related to Laubscher's empirical method and evaluates new cases from recent cave mining operations for checking the validity of the empirical subsidence chart.

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