Geotechnical engineering for mine waste storage facilities

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Other Authors: Blight, G. E., author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boca Raton : CRC Press [2010]
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Table of Contents:
  • ch. 1. Waste engineering, characteristics of mine wastes and types of waste storage
  • ch. 2. Selection of a site for storage of mine waste
  • ch. 3. Geotechnical exploration of sites for development of mine waste storages
  • ch. 4. Environmental and engineering characteristics of mine waste, including stress and strain analysis and laboratory shear testing
  • ch. 5. In situ shear strength testing of tailings and other waste materials and its interpretation
  • ch. 6. Measuring the coefficient of permeability in the laboratory and in situ, seepage flow nets, drains and linings, geosynthetics, geomembranes and GCL's
  • ch. 7. The mechanics of compaction
  • ch. 8. Methods for constructing impounding dykes for storing hydraulically transported tailings and other fine-grained wastes
  • ch. 9. Water control and functional and safety monitoring for hydraulic fill tailings storages and dry dumps. Safety appraisal. Special considerations for carbonaceous and radioactive wastes
  • ch. 10. Water balances for tailings storage facilities and dry waste dumps
  • ch. 11. Failures of mine waste storages
  • ch. 12. Surface stability of tailings storages slopes : erosion rates, slope geometry and engineered erosion protection
  • ch. 13. The use of mine waste for backfilling of mining voids and as a construction material.