A civil engineering research team has developed a new way to clean oil sands process affected water and reclaim tailings ponds in Alberta's oil sands industry. Using sunlight as a renewable energy ...

Today, it is impossible to talk of mine tailings – the unfortunate but unavoidable legacy of mining – and not think of the Brumadinho dam disaster in Brazil, which, in 2019, claimed 259 lives. Aidan ...

The Global Tailings Management Institute (GTMI), an independent organization dedicated to improving the safety of mine ...

While a commodities boom is welcome news for the industry, it also poses significant challenges - including how to handle much higher volumes of mine waste. We are all familiar with the operational ...

The tribal Tahltan Central Council held up Red Chris operations, pending a third-party review of the tailings pond. Engineer Klohn Crippen Berger's study found "a major design issue" in the foundation ...

Edmonton—Cleaning up oil sands tailings has just gotten a lot greener thanks to a novel technique developed by University of Alberta civil engineering professors that uses solar energy to accelerate ...