Advanced Tailings Facility Design, Construction, Operation, and Closure

This webcast is recommended for people with an intermediate understanding of tailings facility design, construction, operation, and closure. It is intended to provide anyone responsible for, or interested in, the hands-on management of tailings facilities with a detailed update on the latest research, practices, and successes in mine tailings management.

The course will include presentations and discussions by experts on topics such as:

-2017/8 tailings failures and lessons learned.
-New approaches in risk management and decision making re tailings.
-The best of recent tailings conferences.
-New guidelines for tailings facility site characterization.
-Successful upstream and centerline construction.
-Covers for soft tailings closure.
-Seepage analysis and management in tailings facilities.
-Tips for successful filtered tailings facilities.
-Advances in tailings water treatment.
-New equipment for tailings management.
-Preparing an EIS for a new tailings facility.

Each topic will be discussed by referencing case histories as well as sharing first-hand experience by the presenters.