Most of the time, engineers calculate “factors of safety” for their designs. A factor of safety tells you how many[…]

My good friend, Jagrut Jathal has asked me the following questions: 1. Are upstream tailings dams really to blame for[…]

This is just a very brief follow-up to the two previous parts of this blog. As I stated at the[…]

As I was saying, I began to develop a slope stability model.  What is a slope stability model, you may ask.  Well,[…]

A website provides a database of world-wide tailings dams failures from 1915 to present (https://worldminetailingsfailures.org/).  That website indicates that they support global[…]

On January 25, 2019, the Córrego do Feijão Dam 1 collapsed at the Vale iron ore mine near Brumadinho in[…]

WHEN A TAILINGS FACILITY FAILS When a tailings facility fails, lives are impacted; families are impacted. When a tailings facility[…]

In about 1996 or 1997, when I joined Toastmasters (which I highly recommend to anyone who needs to speak in[…]