- 652 pages
- English
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Geotechnical Engineering for Mine Waste Storage Facilities
About this book
The book is a comprehensive treatment of the application of geotechnical engineering to site selection, site exploration, design, operation and closure of mine waste storage facilities.The level and content are suitable as a technical source and reference for practising engineers engaged both in the design and operational management of mine waste s
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Table of Contents
- Author Biography
- Acknowledgments
- List of Symbols
- Chapter 1. Waste engineering, characteristics of mine wastes and types of waste storage
- Chapter 2. Selection of a site for storage mine waste
- Chapter 3. Geotechnical exploration of site for development of mine waste storages
- Chapter 4. Environmental and engineering characteristics of mine waste, including stress and strain analysis and laboratory shear testing
- Chapter 5. In situ shear strength testing of tailings and other waste materials and its interpretation
- Chapter 6. Measuring the coefficient of permeability in the laboratory and in situ, Seepage flow nets, drains and linings, geosynthetics, geomembranes and GCL's
- Chapter 7. The mechanics of compaction
- Chapter 8. Methods for constructing impounding dykes for storing hydraulically transported tailing and other fine-grained wastes
- Chapter 9. Waste control and functional and safety monitoring for hydraulic fill tailings storages and dry dumps. Safety appraisal. Special considerations for carbonaceous and radioactive wastes
- Chapter 10. Water balances for tailing storage facilities and dry waste dumps
- Chapter 11. Failures of Mine Waste Storages
- Chapter 12. Surface stability of tailings storages slopes - erosion rates, slope geometry and engineered erosion protection
- Chapter 13. The use of mine waste for backfilling of mining voids and as a construction material
- Subject Index
- Back cover