Tailings and Mine Waste 2002: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference, Fort Collins, Colorado,Symposium Editors The proceedings in this work present 60 papers on mine and mill tailings and mine waste, as well as current and future issues facing the mining and environmental communities. This includes matters dealing with technical capabilities and developments, regulations, and environmental concerns. |
Contents
Preliminary ecological risk assessment for the Elizabeth Mine site South Strafford Vermont | 53 |
Impact of acid rock drainage in a discrete catchment area of the former uranium mining site | 67 |
Tailings beach slope forecasting copper tailings | 87 |
Retrofitting an HDPElined raise over an unlined tailing facility | 101 |
Prediction of the desiccation and sedimentation behavior of a typical platinum tailings | 121 |
Effects of settlement and drainage on strength development within mine paste backfill | 139 |
Pumping paste with a modified centrifugal pump | 155 |
Field investigation to support the closure design of the Yankee Heap | 173 |
Mobility tracing of radionuclides in the uranium tailings Schneckenstein Germany | 303 |
A brief discussion of the behavior of a loose iron tailing material under undrained triaxial loading | 325 |
Stabilization of uranium in pitwaters using phosphate and coal tailings | 339 |
Consolidation of clay slurries amended with shredded waste plastic | 351 |
CuII separation and recovery from mining aqueous systems by flotation DAF using | 365 |
Performance of the Kennecott Utah Copper tailings embankment Magna Utah | 379 |
Dredging and draining of Steep Rock Lake and some of the effects after | 393 |
Remediation of streamside tailings along Silver Bow Creek near Butte Montana | 411 |
II Water column stability and anoxia | 189 |
Long term persistence of cyanide species in mine waste environments | 197 |
The removal of arsenic from groundwater using permeable reactive materials | 213 |
Uranium tailings of Schneckenstein Germany reservoir of contaminants | 231 |
Abandoned mine site waste repositories site selection design and costs | 245 |
Response of plants to oil sand tailings | 263 |
Spatial surface flux boundary model for tailings impoundments | 283 |
A no action alternative that worked | 427 |
Factors influencing net infiltration into mine rock piles at Questa mine New Mexico | 469 |
Selection of a water balance cover over a barrier cap a case study of the reclamation of | 489 |
Evaluation of alternative designs for a waterbalance cover over tailings at the Mineral Hill Mine | 503 |
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Common terms and phrases
acid acid mine drainage alkaline analysis arsenic assessment borehole carbon chemical clay column concentrations consolidation construction contaminants cover cyanide density deposition depth drain drainage dredged embankment environment Environmental ettringite evaluate evaporation facility Figure flow groundwater HDPE Holomictic hydraulic hydraulic conductivity infiltration iron layer leaching liner located lysimeter material mean value measured ment mercury meromictic metals mg/L Mineral Hill minerals mining moisture monitoring MYSRL Ompompanoosuc River open pit operations oxidation oxygen parameters particles paste backfill permeability phase phreatic piezometers pit lakes plant potential precipitation pyrite ratio redox reduce rheology risk rock piles samples sand sediment seepage shear simulations slope slurry soil specific stability Steep Rock Lake sulfide surface water tailings dam tailings impoundment tailings ponds temperature test plot tion topsoil treatment upstream uranium Waste 02 waste rock yield stress Zone