The year was 1985, or there-about. I was in the ground control group at the US Bureau of Mines in Denver. Somebody referred to us as the[…]
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine was commenting on my blog, and said that I shouldn’t be afraid to change things up. Post a recipe,[…]
It seems like impossible things happen all the time. As a breather, let’s examine the first stanza of the poem, “It Couldn’t Be Done”, by Edgar Guest: Somebody[…]
Preamble. Since the failure of the Mount Polley TSF in British Columbia and Samarco in Brazil, many things have changed in the tailings management industry. New guidance[…]
So let’s talk about tailings. This conversation is overdue. In particular, let’s talk about hard-rock, milled tailings. There are other materials at other types of mining properties that[…]
If I could send a message back to a younger version of myself, I would have a lot to say to me. First, I’d tell myself to[…]
Most of the time, engineers calculate “factors of safety” for their designs. A factor of safety tells you how many times safer a design is than is[…]
My good friend, Jagrut Jathal has asked me the following questions: 1. Are upstream tailings dams really to blame for the recent incidents in Brazil? Despite the[…]