Revitalizing contaminated lands: A state-of-the-art review on the remediation of mine-tailings using phytoremediation and genomic approaches

S Hassan, SS Bhadwal, M Khan, KU Nissa, RA Shah… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
The mining industry has historically served as a critical reservoir of essential raw materials
driving global economic progress. Nevertheless, the consequential by-product known as …

Numerical Simulation of Geophysical Models to Detect Mining Tailings' Leachates within Tailing Storage Facilities

MAH Ali, FM Mewafy, W Qian, AR Faruwa, A Shebl… - Water, 2024 - mdpi.com
The effective detection and monitoring of mining tailings' leachates (MTLs) plays a pivotal
role in environmental protection and remediation efforts. Electrical resistivity tomography …

Development and outcomes of a tailings slope stability comparative design exercise

D Reid, A Fourie - Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
Tailings storage facilities (TSFs) have undergone an unacceptably high failure rate for
decades, leading to an increased focus on improving the safety of these structures. One …

[HTML][HTML] The catastrophic failure of the Jagersfontein tailings dam: an industrial disaster 150 years in the making.

L Marais, D Kemp, P van der Watt, S Matebesi… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study provides a sociohistorical account of decisions made over a 150-year period
about the Jagersfontein mine in South Africa's Free State and the catastrophic failure of its …

[HTML][HTML] Root-based solar interfacial evaporation setup for efficient volumetric reduction of concentrated slurry waste

T Kumar, B Zeng, H Hamza, H Zhao, X Zhang - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
Although solar interfacial evaporation stands as a promising application for seawater
desalination, it has been scarcely studied for volumetric reduction of particle-containing …

CPTu-Based Spatial Variability Assessment of Thickened and Conventional Mine Tailings

J Macedo, L Vergaray, C Liu, J Sharp… - … of Geotechnical and …, 2024 - ascelibrary.org
Abstract The Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM) promotes
performance-based approaches in geotechnical assessments. Hence, characterizing the …

[HTML][HTML] Establishing a tailings storage facility database in Gauteng

M Mpanza - The Extractive Industries and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
As an initial step of zero harm, an understanding of the scale and magnitude of Tailings
Storage Facilities (TSFs) is necessary for risk assessments. There is no publicly available …

Applications of classic and advanced constitutive models in tailings practice

A Halliday, C Vulpe, A Fourie… - … and Mine Waste …, 2022 - research-repository.uwa.edu.au
A typical upstream tailings storage facility (TSF) cross-section was evaluated using three
constitutive soil models; Mohr-Coulomb, Modified Cam Clay and P2PSand, to numerically …

Avaliação do comportamento geotécnico de um aterro experimental de rejeito filtrado de flotação de minério de ferro

DG Amorim - 2024 - icts.unb.br
O setor mineral enfrenta o desafio de garantir a mineração de forma sustentável, com
práticas de engenharia que possam reduzir o dano potencial associado à operação de …

Modern treatments of tailings

S el Issaoui - 2023 - lutpub.lut.fi
Every year, the mining industry produces a high amount of tailings, which are waste
products of the beneficiation process of various ores. Tailings contain hazardous metals …