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TAILINGS AND MINE WASTE 2019 LIST OF ACCEPTED ABSTRACTS (As of July 1, 2019)

Muhammad Abbas Stantec Application of the Mine Waste Design Guidelines in the Elk Valley Coal Field, British Columbia, Canada.

• Lesley Town • Andrew Bidwell

David Accadia Golder Associates Refinement of central thickened discharge tailings facilities during operation.

David Accadia Golder Associates Design for transition from down-valley discharge to partial-perimeter discharge.

• Peter Chapman

Philip Addis Golder Associates Ltd. Construction of a new Tailings Storage Facility with a Lined Basin in West Africa, a Case Study.

• Daniel Jones • Brent Bronson

George Adom Teck Coal Ltd. Running Downhill: An adaptable approach to water management planning used for Swift Creek Expansion.

• Daniel Hoover • Jake Gentles • Mark Corrigan • Matthew Graham

Abdeljalil Ait kouia UQAT-RIME The flow control layer used as waste rock piles reclamation technique: Performance evaluation using a physical model.

• Abdelkabir Maqsoud • Bruno Bussière

Shahabul Alam University of Saskatchewan Impact of high-resolution climate change projections on long-term performance of oil sands mine reclamation covers.

• S. Lee Barbour • Mingbin Huang • Yanping Li

Kwakye Ameyaw Forestry Commission/Institute of Environment and Sanitation Studies

Governance implications for the post closure protection of tailings facilities in violent landscapes in Ghana.

• Charles Tawiah Onumah

Alessandro Amodio Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI)

Multi-dimensional Tailings Deposition and Consolidation Modelling.

• Hongjie Zhou • Noel Boylan

Manderson Ana Syncrude Canada Ltd. Overburden Storage 5m low-spec Density Profiles at Syncrude Canada Ltd.

• Pathma Wedage • Tony Burnett

Steven Anderson Golder Associates Crack Erosion Testing of Cut-off Wall Backfill Materials using Acidic and High-Sulfate Solution.

• Samuel P. Saunders • Matthew W. Ryans • Thomas G. Krzewinski


Sumanth Kumar Arnipally Apex Engineering Inc. Lime in Oil Sand Bitumen Extraction and Tailings Processes.

• A. Tang • G. Halferdahl • J.D. Scott • B.Ozum

Monica Ansah-Sam

Canadian Natural Resources Limited Detailed Geomorphic Design of a Waste Dump in the Mineable Oil Sands Region.

• Dejiang Long • Collen Middleton • Matthew Knapik

Monica Ansah-Sam Canadian Natural Resources Limited Comparison of Oil Sand Tailings Consolidation Properties Derived from Beam Centrifuge and Large-Strain Consolidometer Testing.

• Karsten Rudolf • Jason Stianson • Gonzalo Zambrano

Narvaez Monica Ansah-Sam Canadian Natural Resources Limited Processes for the Closure Design of Greenfield

and Brownfield Overburden Dump Sites • Julian McGreevy • Gord McKenna

Stephanie Bale BGC Engineering Inc. Design challenges for tailings dam breach mitigation structures.

• Shielan Liu • Diana Cook • Brad Russell

Hennie Barnard Golder Associates Comparing Critical State Lines derived from advanced and conventional triaxial tests.

Paul M. Bedell Golder Associates Approach and Considerations for OMS Manual Development.

• Ivette De Jesús

Ryan Blanchard Willowstick Technologies Using Technology to Identify Seepage Flow Paths Through, Under and Around Tailings Impoundments.

• Judson Kennedy

Johan Boshoff Golder Associates Risk mitigation for a TSF located in a highly seismic region.

• Louise McNab

Johan Boshoff Golder Associates Stability review and risk mitigation for an upstream raised iron ore TSF located in close proximity of a processing complex.

• Brendan Cummins • Caleb Rodriguez


Jeremy Boswell Thurber Engineering Ltd Responsible Design and Other Defences Against Static Liquefaction of Tailings Structures.

• John Sobkowicz • Dawit Abraha • Iain Gidley • Amy Rentz

René Matias Calvente SRK Consulting A case study of the successful use of performance-based design in the development of a TSF removal operation.

• Ignacio Ezama

Laura Carbone HUESKER Inc. Uranium ore treatment tailings pond remediation– A case study.

• Ole Syllwasschy • Lilma Schimmel • Melchior Briers

Jorge Castillo Knight Piésold and Co. Numerical Modeling of Undrained Cyclic Shear Behaviour of a Liquefiable Gravelly Leached Ore.

• Aurelian C. Trandafir • Tom Kerr

Peter Chapman Golder Associates Using a quantitative risk assessment approach to reduce TSF failure risk and improve operations.

• David Williams

Hernan Cifuentes The University of Queensland Effects of microbial-induced calcium carbonate precipitation on settling and consolidation of tailings and potential for large-scale application.

• David J. Williams

Stephen Clark Klohn Crippen Berger Projecting changes to future extreme precipitation events for the design of tailings storage facilities in British Columbia.

• Mary-Jane Piggott

Daley Clohan Golder Associates A Case for Consistency in Tailings Dam Breach Assessments.

• Peter Chapman

Gerhard Coetzer Golder Associates Three-dimensional stability assessment of a gold TSF to define the buttress requirements.

Iván Contreras Barr Engineering Company Liquefaction Susceptibility Evaluation of Tailings using CPT.

• Aaron Grosser

Vanessa A. Cuervo University of Waterloo/BGC Engineering Tailings flows: A hazard assessment perspective. • Stephen G. Evans

Brendan Cummins Golder Associates Foundation Geotechnical Investigations at Two Gold Mine Tailings Storage Facilities in Western Australia.

• Dr Peter Chapman


John Cunning Golder Associates Case Study using the Stability Rating and Hazard Classification System for Mine Waste Stockpiles.

• Marielle Limoges • Matthew Brenner

Scott Davidson New Gold Inc. Addressing Tailings Management Challenges to Support Expansion of the New Afton Mine.

• Matt Davis

Melanie Davis Stantec Consulting Services Inc. Expanding Tailings Stewardship to Include Towards Sustainable Mining Verification.

• Jason Cumbers • Mike Jacobs • Manuel Aparicio

Richard Dawson Stantec, Canada Samarco – Update of Structures. Mackenzie J. Denyes Wood Plc. Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment of

Mine Wastes in Support of the Environmental Assessment Process.

• Mark Wheeler

Gabriel Castillo Devoto University of British Columbia Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation during Land Restoration and Mine Closure.

• Dr. Nadja Kunz

Maria de Lurdes Dinis CERENA-Polo FEUP, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto

Tailings dam failures: the environmental risk and the disaster management.

• António Fiúza

Janis Drozdiak Golder Associates Management of Geotechnical and Rheological Behaviour of Tailings to achieve Engineered Fill.

• Eduardo Salfate

Earley III Drummond EA Engineering Science and Technology Inc. Passive-Aggressive Treatment of Arsenic in Mine Water using Iron Hydroxide Sorption.

• John Hillenbrand • Lee Becker • Sheena Styger • Jay Snyder

Guy Dufour Mine Raglan, SNC-Lavalin Mine Raglan: Two decades of research to provide a reclamation solution adapted to climate change.

• Geneviève Cauchon-Voyer

• Dominic Tremblay • Yohan Jalbert

Peter D. Duryea Knight Piésold and Co. Assessment of Leach Ore Dry Unit Weight and Hydraulic Performance.


Iman Entezari ConeTec Investigations Ltd. Characterization of Oil Sands Tailings Using Hyperspectral Technology.

• James Sharp • Dallas McGowan

Arash Eshraghian Stantec Waste Rock Pile Flowslide Potential and Runout Assessment for the Elk Valley Coalfield, British Columbia, Canada.

• Steve Bundrock • Ray Yost

Giacomo Falorni TRE Altamira InSAR as a Complementary Technology for Monitoring Programs of Tailings Storage Facilities and Waste Piles.

• Sara Del Conte • Alain Boudreau

Paul Ferguson Robertson GeoConsultants Inc. Myra Falls Case Study (Paper 1): Environmental Implications of Long-Term Tailings and Waste Rock Management Practices.

• Mahmoud Hussein • Christoph Wels • Nicole Pesonen

Bereket Fisseha Golder Associates Large-Strain Consolidation and Shear Strength of Saturated/Unsaturated Fluid Fine Tailings.

• G. Ward Wilson • Delwyn G. Fredlund

Andy Fourie UWA Static liquefaction of tailings: an update on the industry funded TAILLIQ research project.

• David Reid • Adrian Russell • Mizanur Rahman • J Vinod

Oboni Franco Oboni Riskope Associates Inc. Sustainable Management of a tailing’s dams portfolio using quantitative risks.

• Cesar Henri Oboni

Andrew Fuggle Golder Associates Interpretation Uncertainty within a Mechanics- Based Approach to Liquefaction Assessment and Shear Strength Estimation.

• Jean Kugel

Robyn Gaebel Treasury Metals Inc. Rethinking Waste between Industries. Haile Getahun SNC Lavalin Designing a Mud Stacking and Drying Facility on

Difficult Terrain.

Negar Ghahramani UBC/Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences

An empirical approach to estimate tailings-flow inundation area.

• Vanessa Cuervo • Andrew Mitchell • Scott McDougall • Stephen G. Evans


Gordan Gjerapic Golder Associates Determination of Consolidation Parameters using Settling Column Tests.

• Murat Kaya • Matt Barrett • Dobroslav Znidarcic

Nigel Goldup Tetra Tech Canada Inc./Agnico Eagle Mines Limited

From Design to Operation: Filtered Tailings at the Meliadine Gold Mine, Nunavut, Canada.

• Jennifer Pyliuk • Bill Horne • Guangwen (Gordon) Zhang • Thomas Lepine

Mohammad Gorahki Colorado State University Hydraulic conductivity testing and destructive sampling of GeoWaste and waste rock test piles.

• Christopher Bareither • Joseph Scalia • Michael Jacobs • Manuel Aparicio

Scott Gover Golder Associates Africa (Pty) Ltd A Case Study on Liquefaction and Dam Breach Risk Management.

Kelly Greaser Golder Associates Variably-Saturated Flow Modeling of a Heap Leach Pad: Analysis of Saturation Mechanisms.

• Jean Kugel • Arlen Striegl

Alexandra Halliday Golder Associates The Value of Detailed Topographic Surveys for Consequence Classifications Using Dam Breach Assessments.

Michael Henderson BGC Engineering Inc. Upstream Failure Modes for Centerline Tailings Dams.

Jeffrey Hill Hayward Baker Abstract Ash and tailings comparison Mine tailings 2019.

• Logan Bessette

Kris Hojka Stantec Consulting Ltd Encapsulation of Mine Waste with Geomembrane as Preferred Closure Option for Gordon Lake Sites in NWT.

• Amy Allan • Giselle Cotta • Dave Bynski • Allen MacGarvie


Alexander Holden BGC Engineering Inc. Evolution of landforms in reclaimed landscapes in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region.

• Heather Provost • Gord McKenna • June Pollard • Sean Wells

Waldo Huallanca Anddes Associates Considerations and consequences of tailings storage facilities design over soft soils.

• Myzael Valdivia • Miguel Regalado • Rolando Rojas

Josue Huere MINSUR Transformation of potential mining passives into productive assets to improve the capacity and the life of the tin mine in San Rafael, Puno, Peru.

Stefan Humphries SNC-Lavalin Inc. Hydrogeological Assessment of a Complex Aquifer System to Mitigate of Groundwater Discharge to a Creek in a Confined Valley: Part 1 of 2 Case Study from the former Sullivan Mine, Kimberley, BC.

Mahmoud Hussein Robertson GeoConsultants Inc. Myra Falls Case Study (Paper 2): Numerical Modelling of Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport.

José Ignacio Riquelme SRK Consulting Influence of soil retention curve in closure infiltration model.

Sally Innis University of British Columbia The role of institutional investors in improved management of tailings storage facilities.

• Dr. Nadja Kunz

Shriful Islam The University of Queensland Experimental and numerical analysis of a slurry consolidation test.

Justin Jacobs Paterson & Cooke, Orano Canada, SRK Consulting

An Alternative Tailings Deposition System for Uranium Tailings.

• Jon Aydt • Erik Ketilson • Matthew Treinen


Michael James SNC-Lavalin Considerations for the evaluation of the seismic performance of tailings impoundments.

Michael James SNC-Lavalin The use of stone columns to facilitate the upstream raising of tailings dikes.

Peter Jenner Phu Bia Mining Limited Management and Governance Changes in an Evolving Mining Company in Laos PDR.

Marouen Jouini The Research Institute on Mines and Environment (RIME) - UQAT / Polytechnique

Environmental assessment of residues from field multi-step passive treatment of Fe-AMD: Case study of the Lorraine mine site, QC, Canada.

• C.M. Neculita • T. Genty • M. Benzaazoua

Tamara Jurado Atarfil Geomembranes Textured Geomembranes and Friction in interface shear testing in mining applications.

Louis K. Kabwe University of Alberta Geotechnical and unsaturated properties of metal mines and oil sand tailings.

• G. Ward Wilson • Nicholas A. Beier • J. Don Scott

Bill Kappel Applied Weather Associates Hurricanes Harvey and Florence; Are Storms Changing and How Does this Effect TSF and Dam Design?

Jason Keller GeoSystems Analysis, Inc., USA Developing High Resolution Estimates of Tailings Facility Seepage

• Michael Milczarek • Frederick Partey • Michael Geddis

Alison Kelly Teck Alaska, Inc. Developing a sustainable local native forb seed source to maintain biodiversity at an Arctic mine.

• Alison Kelley • Peter Johnson

Bryn E. Kimball INTERA Incorporated Micrometer-Scale Characterization of Solid Mine Waste Aids in Closure Due Diligence.

• Heather E. Jamieson • Robert R. Seal II • Agatha Dobosz • Nadine M. Piatak


Kristen Gault Wood Plc. Field Testing to Assess the Evaporation Potential of Granular Cover Materials.

• David Bleiker • Xiaogang Hu

Kristen Gault Wood Plc. The Evolution of Pit Lake Water Quality at Steep Rock Mine – A Case History and Future Predictions.

• Steve Sibbick

Christian Kujawa Paterson & Cooke USA Ltd Creating Better Tailings Facilities Using Innovative Process Engineering.

• Jeff Winterton • Rachel Jansen • Robert Cooke

Scott Laberge University of Alberta A study of the impact of evapotranspiration through native plant species on the strength and solids content of treated oil sands tailings.

Pier-Luc Labonté-Raymond RIME-Polytechnique Impact of climate change on surface water management at tailings storage facilities.

• Thomas Pabst • Bruno Bussière

Donald Lake Terra CO2 Technologies Long-term stabilization of tailings with tailings-based geo-polymer solidification.

Matt Lato BGC Engineering Inc. The potential of using photogrammetry and UAV data for construction monitoring and as built records.

• Joan Roca • Tyler Dixon • Bill Burton • Brian Nachtigal

Vincent Le Borgne GKM Consultants, Rio Tinto Aluminum Deployment of a dense IOT-enabled instrumentation network on the tailings of an aluminum refinery.

• Jean-Marie Bréhé • Steve Lacerte • Guillaume Tremblay

Gerrie Le Roux Golder Associates Challenges associated with water management and embankment raising of a large central discharge tailings storage facility in Australia.

• Brett Mullen • David Williams

Heather Lindsay EcoMetrix Incorporated Bringing Environmental Intelligence to Soil Cover Design Criteria for Tailings Impoundments.

• Daniel Skruch • Andy Small • R.V. (Ron) Nicholson • Sarah Barabash


Patrick Littlejohn BQE Water/Source Environmental Associates

Tailings Management and Triggers for Water Discharge: Planning for Uncertainty.

• Rina Freed

Allen L. Li GHD Static Liquefaction Potential and Triggering Analyses.

• Dr. Abouzar Sadrekarimi

Shielan Liu BGC Engineering Inc. A Probabilistic Methodology for Tailings Dam Breach and Inundation Modelling.

• Robert Millar

Sue Longo Golder Associates Underground Mine Rehabilitation for Closure: A Uranium Case Study.

• Chloe Crossley

Emilio López Nava Consulting The future of abandoned tailings facilities in Chile.

• Gail Riddell

Bernd G. Lottermoser MRE – Institute of Mineral Resources Engineering RWTH Aachen University

Valorization of phosphate mine wastes: the challenge of additional resource recovery from phosphate rock.

Bernd G. Lottermoser MRE – Institute of Mineral Resources Engineering RWTH Aachen University

Cobalt recovery through pyrite valorization: extracting a critical metal and preventing ARD development.

• Sven Sindern • Maria Wierzbicka-Wieczorek

Benjamin W. Lowry Sensemetrics Inc. Applying the Observational Method to Tailings Dam Management in the Era of Sensorization, IIoT, and Cloud Computing.

• Alex Pienaar

Tobias Lutz Putzmeister Solid Pumps GmbH Pulsation Dampening in Tailings Handling with Piston Pumps.

Jorge Macedo Georgia Institute of Technology Performance-based assessment of seismically-induced displacements in tailings dams.

• Gabriel Candia

Jorge Macedo Georgia Institute of Technology The role of compressibility in the static and seismic response of tailing materials.

• Gabriel Candia

Jorge Macedo Georgia Institute of Technology A computational platform for the quantification of the seismic demand in mining projects.

• Franklin Olaya

Jorge Macedo Georgia Institute of Technology Estimating the residual strength of tailings impoundments.

• Alexandros Petalas • Renzo Cornejo • Luis Astupiña


Jorge Macedo Georgia Institute of Technology Insights on the calibration of plasticity models for the static and cyclic response of tailings materials.

• Luis Astupiña

Jorge Macedo Georgia Institute of Technology Identification of state for liquefaction analyses in tailings materials using the CPT.

Jorge Macedo Georgia Institute of Technology The role of compressibility in the static and seismic response of tailing materials.

K. El Mahboub UQAT Tailings slurry thickening using Superabsorbent Polymers (SAPs) and parameters affecting their absorbency.

• T. Belem • M. Mbonimpa • M. Maqsoud • Nor el-hoda Addi

Abdelkabir Maqsoud UQAT-RIME Physical modelling of different reclamation scenarios for the abandoned Principal mine site (Quebec, Canada).

• Bruno Bussière • Hassan Bouzehzah

Knobloch Marjan Institute of Mineral Resources Engineering, RWTH Aachen University

A new technique for measuring the reactivity of sulphidic ores and wastes: The application of infrared thermography.

• Bernd G. Lottermoser

Marcelo Martínez Golder Associates Earthquake Ground Motion Selection Criteria for Analysis and Design of Tailings and Mine-Waste Facilities.

• Alan Hull

Paul W. Mayne Georgia Institute of Technology CPT approach for flow liquefaction using yield stress ratio.

• Jamie Sharp

Heather D. McDaniel Souder Miller & Associates Improved QA/QC of double-lined ponds for processed water containment.

• Thierry Jacquelin • Pascal Saunier

Stuart McPhee SRK Consulting (Canada) Inc. Waste Rock and Tailings Deposition in Deep Glacier Lake on Thick Unconsolidated Lake Bed Sediments.

• Maritz Rykaart


Michael M. Gabora DHI Water & Environment Calibration constrained probabilistic tailings pore pressure modelling.

Iozsef Miskolczi SRK Consulting (Canada) Inc. Water Matters – Final Drain-down Modelling for Mine Waste Facilities.

• Maritz Rykaart

Peter Mitchell Engineers and Geoscientists BC, Klohn Crippen Berger

The Standard of Practice for Dam Safety Reviews and Site Characterization for Dam Foundations in BC.

• Lindsay Steele • Harvey McLeod

Carlos Moreno CFE-GEIC (Comision Federal de Electricidad)

Geotechnical analysis and design for an iron tailings dam in Mexico.

• Adrián Hernández García • Aldo Campos López • Oscar Luna González

Kimberly Morrison CMOC International Post-Brumandinho: Continued Evolution to Tailings Dam Regulations in Brazil.

• Paulo C.R. Gomide • Ernesto T. Bossi

Ben Mosher Graymont High Performance Fine Tailings Dewatering with Hydrated Lime Treatment.

• Nikolas Romaniuk • Jesse Fox • Jared Leikam

Chad Mundle Golder Associates Field Shear Vane Testing in non-plastic Gold Tailings.

• Fiona Esford • Michel Julien

Fergus Murphy Suncor Energy Inc. Slurry to Soil – Geotechnical Behaviour of Chemically Amended Oil Sands Tailings.

• Sam Proskin • Ardalan Sadighian

Fredlund Murray Bentley SoilVision Systems, BCG Engineering

Complex Tailings Dam 3D Stability Analysis Case Study.

• Marina Trevizolli • Jon Foster

Marcelo Musse Teck Resources Limited Mining dam safety regulations: one decade later.

• Caius Priscu • Andy Small • John Lupo • Miguel Díaz

Marcelo Mussé Ausenco One key early task: site selection for TSF. • Pablo Galdeano Ganan Nadarajah Wood Plc. On Undrained Peak and Residual / Liquefied

Shear Strength of Tailings from CPT, Vane Shear Test and Direct Simple Shear Test Data.

• Mathi Shan • Narendra Verma • David Bleiker


Ganan Nadarajah Wood Plc. Pore Water Pressure Response of Foundation Tailings to Test Berm Construction.

• Adam Duyvestyn • David Bleiker

Gonzalo Zambrano Navarez University of Alberta Mine Tailings Consolidation Properties Derived from Beam Centrifuge.

• Rick Chalaturnyk • Yazhao Wang

John D. Nelson Engineering Analytics, Inc. Undrained Shear Strength of Glacio-Lacustrine Clay under Tailings Dam Embankments.

• Kuo Chieh Chao • Daniel D. Overton

Hossein Nematollahi Applying circulating load in thickeners modifies decantation of fine particles.

Raúl Norambuena Arcadis Challenges on Dam Break Analyses on Large Copper Tailings Dams.

• Eloy Santos • José Campaña

Angela Oblasser Fundación Chile Chile: mandatory transparent online monitoring and early warning system for tailings facilities.

• Jorge Vargas • Rodrigo Moya • René Orellana • Cleve Lightfoot

Susanne Ouellet BGC Engineering Static liquefaction-type tailings dam failures: understanding options for detecting failures.

• Naia Suszek • Matt Lato • Brad Russell • Corey Froese

Etienne Parent Carleton University Dam breach simulation with advanced rheology transition.

• Paul Simms • Abdulghader Abdulrahman • Komeil Kazemi

Tania Perzoff Tetra Tech Canada Ltd. Is bigger better? The advantages and challenges presented by using instrumented Becker Penetration Test equipment at a remote, northern mine site.

• Ryan Garritsen • Anisha Navaratnam

Tania Perzoff Tetra Tech Canada Ltd Retrofitting a 20th century world to 21st century standards: the challenges and considerations for mine closure.

• Rick Hoos • Anisha Navaratnam


Lucy Philip Stantec Can we learn from avalanche incidents and apply the findings to tailings and mine waste?

Mary-Jane Piggott Klohn Crippen Berger The KSM Project. • Graham Parkinson

Germán Pizarro Golder Associates Tailings storage facility embankment reconstruction at Mount Polley Mine.

Caius Priscu Anglo American Tailings dam safety: is waste rock coming to the rescue?

• Anton Bain • Moseli Motselebane • Timothy Gardner

Caius Priscu Anglo American Role of the Engineer of Record in the Management of Tailings Dam Safety – The Chilean Experience.

• Michael Davies • Rene G. Orellana F. • Silvana Dal Pozzo

Heather Provost BGC Engineering Inc. Landform conversion of mining by-products in the oil sands closure landscape.

• Gord McKenna • Alexander Holden • June Pollard • Jordan Harrington

Shunchao Qi Sichaun University The UNSATCON model for tailings deposition.

• Paul Simms

Vinicius Queiroga Golder Associates A Proposed Methodology For Assessing Tailings Dam Break Under Liquefaction Phenomena.

• Fernando Tomé • Hua Zhang • Aloysio Saliba • Lucio Villar

Elard Quispe Anddes Associates Analysis of Physical Stability Conditions for Cover Systems with Geosynthetics in Mine Closure.

• Waldo Huallanca • Denys Parra

Kenneth Rahal Dewatering Solutions Evaluation of a Split Stream Dewatering Flowsheet for Tailings.

• Todd Wisdom

Krishna N Rao Golder Associates Establishing strain-based triggers for SAAFs to check clay foundation performance as a result of TSF embankment loading.

• Johan Boshoff


Miguel Regalado Anddes Associates Cyclic and Post-cyclic Response of Tailings under Direct Simple Shear Loading.

• Renzo Ayala • Denys Parra

David Reid The University of Western Australia, Golder Associates Pvt Ltd

Critical state testing of tailings: considerations related to pore fluid chemistry.

• Riccardo Fanni • Kyle Smith

Aida Rezapour Golder Associates Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) Impoundment Closure Management and Phasing – A Case Study.

• Gregory L. Hebeler • Dennis Rugg • Charles Naidoo

Paul W. Ridlen Knight Piésold Consulting Construction and Operation of the Constancia Tailings Management Facility, a large Centerline-150 Method Rockfill Dam Constructed of Compacted Waste Rock.

• Edwin Ruiz • Wesley Herweynen • Javier Toro • Gilberto Dominguez

Rolando Rojas Anddes and National University of Engineering

Normalized shear modulus and damping ratio curves of tailings.

• Miguel Regalado • Renzo Ayala • Denys Parra

Brahian Román Cabrera Anddes Associates Geotechnical Design of a Filtered Tailings Facility over Soft Cyclone Tailings Impoundment.

Brahian Román Cabrera Anddes Associates An Experimental Study on the Post-liquefaction Shear Strength of Aluminum Tailings.

Lizbeth Rostro The Dow Chemical Company Development of a Novel Flocculant for Oil Sands Tailings Remediation.

• Orlando Castellanos Diaz • Paul A. Gillis • Wu Chen • Jason Tubbs

Dennis A. Rugg Golder Associates Short-term Tailings Deposition Plan. • Steven L. Anderson • Aida Rezapour

Masoumeh Saiyar Golder Associates Liquefaction Assessment and Dynamic Properties of Lead-Zinc Mine Tailings.

• Dennis Becker • Steve Anderson


Eduardo Salfate Golder Associates GOLDSET-Spatial – Multiple Account Analysis Tool for Selection of Tailings Systems and Components.

• Daniel Balough

Kristin Salzsauler Golder Associates Geochemical Assessment of Tailings, Soils and Sediments along the Areas Affected by the Samarco Dam.

• Thais Moreira Amaral • Rens Verburg • Cheryl Ross • Antônio Freitas

Matt Schafer BGC Engineering Inc. Sensitivity of calculated state parameter to typical errors and uncertainties in cone penetration testing and undisturbed sampling of tailings.

• Matt Dugie • Rosa An • Brad Russell • Adrian Wightman

J. Scheremeta Knight Piésold and Co. Geotechnical Design and Analysis of Slopes for a Tailings Re-mining Operation in Brazil.

• T.F. Kerr • J. Taylor • P. Ridlen • A. Matos

Gary Schudel Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue and École Polytechnique de Montréal

The effect of arctic conditions on the biogeochemical behavior of sulfidic tailings.

• Benoît Plante • Bruno Bussière • Joyce McBeth

Mathi Shan Wood Plc. Comparison of Tailings Properties at Different Solid Content.

• Ganan Nadarajah • Mickey Davachi • David Bleiker

Daniel Skruch EcoMetrix Incorporated Developing Design Compatibility for Geotechnical and Geochemical Stability in Tailings Covers: An Example for Upstream Construction.

• R.V. (Ron) Nicholson • Sarah Barabash • Antoine Boyer • Heather Lindsay

Kyle Smith Golder Associates Critical state testing of tailings: comparison between various tailings and implications for design

• David Reid • Peter Chapman • Riccardo Fanni


Lynda Smithard McCue Engineering Contractors Synthetic Water Calibration for Water Quality Parameters & Water Treatment Program Validation.

Dan Stenglein Aqseptence Group Inc Tailings Dams: How many more disasters before changing the industry’s mentality?

• Andrea Pezzi

Christopher Stevens SRK Consulting Inc. Potential for Accelerated Permafrost Thaw Beneath Water and Tailings Dams.

• John Kurylo • Peter Luedke • Maritz Rykaart

Jean-Francois St-Laurent SRK Consulting (Canada) Inc. Successful In Situ Tailings Stacking over Tailings Slurry Beach to Increase Tailings Impoundment Storage Capacity.

• Steve Gaudreault • Mylène Sansoucy

Thomas Sully Knight Piésold Ltd Design to Support Evaluation of Thickened and Amended Tailings Storage in a Block Cave Subsidence Zone.

• Daniel Friedman • Ken Brouwer • Scott Davidson

Eder Tapia Anddes and National University of Engineering

Normalized shear modulus reduction and damping ratio curves of mine waste and leach ore.

• Denys Parra

Brad Tiver Golder Associates Liquefaction assessment of a thickened tailings deposit in an arid environment using critical state laboratory testing to calibrate cone penetration tests.

• Henry Munoz • Peter Chapman

Mark Trevor SLR Consulting Case Study - Differing Closure Approaches for Three California Mother Lode Gold Mines.

• Yaocihuatl Bourdon

Jim Turner PhotoSat Inc. Establishing Tailings Survey Standards at multiple mines in locations around the world.

• Gerry Mitchell


Stefano Utili Newcastle University, University of Milano Bicocca

Hazard assessment of tailing dams subject to static liquefaction and slope instability by Finite Element analyses.

• Riccardo Castellanza • Gabriele Frigerio

Bryce Uytiepo SUEZ WTS Laboratory Methods Used to Design Effective Mine Tailings Dust Management Programs.

• Michael Raab • Robert Greifzu

Andrea Walsh Queen’s University Physical Modelling of Tailings Dam Breach. • W. Andy Take

D. Morgan Warren Golder Associates Material-Specific Intrinsic Oxidation Rates from Custom Laboratory Oxygen Consumption Testing.

• Jacob S. Waples • Matthew Cashimer

D. Morgan Warren Golder Associates Machine Learning Methods for Mine Material Management.

Scott Webster Canada Research & Development Corporation

Effects of Shear on Dewatering and Compressibility of Treated Oil Sands Tailings.

• Scott E Webster • Tayfun Aydin • Clara Gomez • Amarebh Sorta

Pathma Wedage Wood Plc. Seepage Control Systems in In-Pit Dams – Current Practice at Oilsand Mines in Alberta.

• Tony Burnett • Ana Manderson

Patrick Sean Wells Suncor Energy, Inc. Improving the Operation - Oil Sands Tailings Measurement System.

• Kendall Palmer

John Whittall BGC Engineering Inc. Challenges with use of Risk Matrices for Mine Waste Facilities.

• Michael Porter

Jared Whitehead Klohn Crippen Berger Ltd Engineering properties of cycloned copper tailings sands.

• Andrew Witte • Mukesh Madurai • Harvey McLeod

David J. Williams The University of Queensland Obstacles to Mine Operations that Facilitate Mine Closure, Rehabilitation and Relinquishment.


Holly Williams SRK Consulting Applying threshold analysis to the selection of tailings and waste rock closure covers.

• Daryl Hockley

Patrick Williamson INTERA Baseline Investigations and Preliminary Design for an In-Pit Tailings Storage Facility, Magistral Mine, Sinaloa.

• Joel CarrascoJoel Carrasco • Chris Lane • Mick Gavrilovic

Christina Winckler AECOM USA Stability buttress to support observed change in design conditions.

• Kanyembo Katapa • Tamara Johndrow

Hossein Zamani SNC-Lavalin The application of a risk-based approach to Mount Polley tailings storage facility.

• Michael James

Zygi Zurakowski Stantec Geotechnical Investigation and Instrumentation Programs for Tailings Storage Facilities: A Risk Management Approach.

• Nick Brink • Lauren Meyer • Sam Abbaszadeh

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