Tailings and Mine Wate 2012

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TAILINGS AND MINE WASTE ‘12
proceedings of the 16th international conference on tailings and mine waste
keystone, colorado, usa, october 14 – 17, 2012
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Proceedings Tailings and Mine Waste 2012 | Keystone, Colorado, USA | October 14-17, 2012
Preface
This proceedings includes 58 state-of-the-art papers. These papers address the important
issues faced by the mining industry today and will provide a record of the discussions at the
conference that will remain of value for many years.
The organizing committee wishes to thank all who have contributed to this year’s conference
including authors, presenters, keynote speakers, short course providers, sponsors, and
exhibitors.
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Organization
The Tailings and Mine Waste 2012 conference was organized by the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado in conjunction
with the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta and the University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, British Columbia.
Organizing Committee And Sponsors
Daniel Overton (Committee Chair) Engineering Analytics, Inc., Fort Collins, Colorado
Carl Burkhalter AMEC, Englewood, Colorado
Loel Renshaw Ausenco PSI, Concord, California
Christopher Bareither Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Charles Shackelford Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Shawn Steiner ConeTec, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah
Brent Bronson Golder Associates, Inc., Lakewood, Colorado
Bryan Ulrich Knight Piésold Consulting, Elko, Nevada
Clint Strachan MWH, Fort Collins, Colorado
Robert Cooke Paterson & Cooke, Golden, Colorado
Andrew Robertson Robertson GeoConsultants, Inc., Vancouver,
British Columbia
Larry Cope SRK Consulting, Inc., Fort Collins, Colorado
Mike Henderson Tetra Tech, Inc., Golden, Colorado
Kirk Palicki URS Corporation, Denver, Colorado
Dave Sego University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
Dirk Van Zyl University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
British Columbia
Community Sponsor
Norwest Corporation Vancouver, British Columbia
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Table of Contents

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v OrGANIzATION
1 cONfErENcES SuMMAry
MILL TAILINGS
3 The tailings beach as a horizontal gravitational thickener – water recovery from three
operational platinum tailings storage facilities
G. Blight
17 Accelerated consolidation testing of slurries using a desktop centrifuge
D. Reid & A. Fourie
29 The application of highly dewatered tailings in the design of tailings storage facilities
– Experience in mining projects in Peru
J. L. Lara, E. Pronillosm & C. Loayza
43 Development and performance of a processed kimberlite waste facility, De Beers
Canada Inc., Victor Diamond Mine
R. Couto, P. Merry & P. Gauthier
55 A diamond mine waste facility design—it’s more than just keeping the plant running
P.M. Bedell, P. Godin & M. Boucher
71 Downstream to centerline construction: The challenge of change
J. Ortiz, J. Urquidi, D. Pollak & S. Barrera
83 Engineering decision making in the design, operation, and closure of tailings, waste rock, and
heap leach facilities
J. A. Caldwell & I. Hutchison
95 Is it true that PIGs fly when evaluating risks of tailings management systems
F. Oboni & C. Oboni
107 LaRonde mine tailings pond development – a case study of innovation and benefits of a close
collaboration between the design and operating teams
M. Kissiova, M. Julien, A-M. Dagenais & P. Lavoie
121 Mine design for closure
I.Hutchison, J.A. Caldwell & J. Juliani
131 Modeling, testing and observations for tailing beach deposition
C. Krautmann, R.A. Rodriguez, J. Rogers & J. Gutierrez
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143 Tailings Deposition Strategy – how do you choose
I. Wislesky
151 Variation of tailings density in depth – A model
C. Cacciuttolo & S. Barrera
163 Waste management considerations in mine investment decisions
J.A. Caldwell
171 Water hammer considerations for a tailings pipeline
W. N. Dockery II & B.E. Abulnaga
GEOTEchNIcAL cONSIDErATIONS
181 Back Analysis of the Goathill North Slope Failure
M. Fredlund
193 Closure of surface waste rock dumps and tailings storage facilities begins with first
placement and ends with a cover
D.J. Williams
205 Consolidation relationships for different ore tailings in Brazilian mines
W.L. de Oliveira Filho & L.P. Menezes
217 Determining in situ state of sand and silt tailings from the CPT
K. Been, S. Romero, J. Obermeyer & G. Hebeler
229 Dynamic properties of coal combustion products (CCP)
K.M. Foster, A. Rodriguez-Marek, R.A. Green & N. Lacour
241 The effects of “in-line” flocculation on the geotechnical properties of clay tailings
D. Reid & A. Fourie
253 Evaluating flow (static) liquefaction using the CPT: an update
P.K. Robertson
265 Evaluating the shear strength of mine waste rock
J.N. Stoeber, Z. P. Fox, M. Abshire & D. Overton
281 The impact of high density liquors on standard soil mechanics calculations
C.G. Mundle, P. Chapman, D.A. Williams & D.G. Fredlund
293 Interface shear strength for slope stability of cover and liner systems in mining industry
C. Crystal & T. Hadj-Hamou
303 Lining steep rock slopes with a geomembrane liner to facilitate tailings facility expansion
J. Purdy, M. Fuller, T. Meyer, S. Douglas & A. Lagos
313 Multidimensional coupled sedimentation and consolidation theory
M. Fredlund, J. Zhang, D. van Zyl, & S. Wells
325 Post-liquefaction undrained shear strength of sandy silt and silty sand tailings
K. Been, J. Obermeyer, J. Parks & A. Quiñonez
337 Update on the Plewes Method for liquefaction screening
D. Reid
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WATEr MANAGEMENT AND WATEr TrEATMENT
347 Groundwater issues in the design, operation, and closure of tailings, waste rock, and heap
leach facilities
B. Brixel, J.A. Caldwell & C. Wells
359 The impacts of evaporation on the in situ density of hard rock gold tailings
D. Reid & D. Williams
371 Numerical groundwater flow modelling at the historic Rum Jungle mine site, Northern
Territory, Australia
C. Wells, P. Ferguson & M. Fawcett
385 Predicting the effects of hypersalinity on evaporation rate and water quality in surface
impoundments
D.B. Levy
395 Seepage risk sensitivity study for a potential failure mode analysis due to mining near
bodies of water
T. Wachtel, J.D. Quaranta, D. van Zyl & H. Siriwardane
GEOchEMISTry
407 Arsenic removal: addressing the concerns of sludge stability and volume
L. Moore, L. Sanders, J.R. Durand, T. Banks, J. Langsch & M. Costa
419 Engineered pumpable pHoamTM: an innovative method for mitigating ARD
J.J. Gusek, B. Maslorr, J. Fodor & D. Dunham
435 Evaluating the effects of Uranium Kd on the restoration of ISR wellfields using PHT3D
M. Gard & J. Mahoney
445 Heavy metal accumulation and tolerance in spontaneous vegetation in El Avenque dry
river bed, southeast of Spain
A. Parra, A. Faz, R. Zornoza, E. Conesa, & M.D. Gómez-López
451 Membrane based water and wastewater treatment solutions
T. Lilley
461 Phosphorus removal from mining processes
L. Sanders, L.R. Moore & J.R. Durand
rEcLAMATION & rEMEDIATION
471 Closure planning in the Pilbara, Western Australia
A. Barleet, T.A. Chapel, D.L. Evans & M.A. Harvey
481 Effect of marble waste and pig slurry on the growth of native vegetation and heavy metal
mobility in a mine tailing pond
S. Kabas, A. Faz, J.A. Acosta, R. Zornoza, S. Martínez-Martínez, D.M. Carmona
& J. Bech
493 Landscape rehabilitation of an abandoned tailing pond in southeast Spain
R. Zornoza, A. Faz, A. Parra, S. Martínez-Martínez, M.D. Gómez, & J.A. Acosta
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Dry STAcK/PASTE
503 Cyclic behavior of thickened tailings
M.V. Sanin, H. Puebla, T. Eldgridge
513 Defining and quantifying sustainable backfill
J.Jones, F. Wudrick & D. Green
525 Deposition sequencing or “drying time” for multi-point deposition of high density tailings
P. Simms, F. Daliri & A. Dunmola
537 Designing mine earth structures for long-term risks while optimizing short-term costs
C. Crystal & T. Hadj-Hamou
547 Ice-rich permafrost considerations for the design of a dry stack tailings facility,
Bellekeno Mine, Keno City, Yukon, Canada
J.T. Pigage, J.R. Trimble & S.C. Davidson
559 Pahoehoe to paste: Rheological field methods for characterizing overland
tailings flow behavior
L.E. Charlebois
OIL SANDS
569 Aspects of the behavior of fine oil sands tailings during atmospheric drying
Y. Yao, F. van Tol & L. van Paassen
579 Coupling of oil sands mature fine tailings and bitumen extraction
B. Ozum & J.D. Scott
593 A mathematical programming model for oil sands production scheduling and waste
management
E. Ben-Awuah & H. Askari-Nasab
609 Towards integration of oil sands mine planning with tailings and reclamation plans
M.M. Badiozamani & H. Askari-Nasab
NEW TEchNOLOGIES
623 Beneficial use of mine tailings to construct detention structures using geotextile tubes
T.C. Stephens
633 A novel fines sequestration and tailings treatment technology
N. Ashcraft, W. Ware & D. Soane
643 Resource recovery from mining-related wastes using Tetronics’ Plasma Arc Technology
T.P. Johnson & D.E. Deegan
653 Trenchless and sustainable pipe
C. West, J. Harrelson & C. Richgels
661 Unique approach to dewatering of mine wastewater residuals using geotextile containers
V. Ginter & C.D. Timpson
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