Dams in General – SANCOLD

TAILINGS DAMS. Tailings dams (or slimes dams) store the waste product (usually fine crushed sand, or sometimes power station ash or coal waste), from mining or industrial processes. Although the dam's primary function is to store waste, they also contain and store water from the …

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Cyclone Technology Improves Safety and Efficiency of ...

Cyclone Technology Improves Safety and Efficiency of Slimes Dams. An exclusive range of excavators supplied by High Power Equipment (HPE) Africa, the sole distributor of earthmoving equipment in Southern Africa, is helping to ensure that slime dams are built more safely and efficiently. Cyclone Engineering Projects, a market-leader in ...

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US3763041A - Process of removing water from slimes ...

A process for enhancing the rate at which water is removed from the waste slimes of ore processing operations, particularly phosphate rock processing, in which waste tailings from the ore processing are admixed with the slimes to release water from the mixture. The slimes contain a solid content of from 10% to about 25 percent by weight and tailings are added to produce a slimestailing mixture ...

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Gold Mine tours - Johannesburg and Gauteng mining tour

Abandoned gold mines and slimes dams. Not the highlight of our tour – but does show the damage caused by over a century of gold mining. With the high background radiation in the area – due to naturally occurring Uranium. Not an area you wish to spend any significant length of time. However, vulnerable, improvised communities do live in ...

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Investigation into the slimes dams

The following practices or technologies could make mine dumps and slimes dams practical in habitable environments: Rock cladding of tailings dams, this has been used to control wind and water (rainfall) erosion of the Doornkop tailings dam in the Westrand, Randfontein Estates gold …

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Gravitas Minerals to present two papers on ideal clean ...

I believe this could bring about a serious case of remining the coal slimes dams purely to produce this product, which will reduce rehabilitation costs and lengthen the life of slimes dams ...

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Regulations Regarding the Safety of Dams

Page 5 of 54 (9) "full supply level" means the level at the dam where the reservoir is considered to be one hundred percent () full under normal operating conditions. For a reservoir where the outflow is wholly or partly controlled by movable gates, siphons or by other means, it is the maximum level at the dam to

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augments the FSE's previous submissions on the Draft ...

and sustainable options for potential post-closure land use. • The DEA (together with the DMR and DWS) must respectively, include in their annual reports the number of compliance notices or other sanctions imposed, including the proportion of successful interventions and/or criminal prosecutions undertaken against non-compliance.

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equipments used for remining slimes dams

equipments used for remining slimes dams Horse Supplies | Horse Tack & Horse Equipment - Horse.com Retails supplements, saddles, tack, apparel, farrier and grooming supplies, fly control products, stable and pack equipment, tack and gift items.

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BRUMADINHO ENGINEERING HISTORY – World Mine Tailings ...

"FoS is used by designers, dam owners and regulators to quantify dam safety, but it is not directly correlated to the risk (i.e. the likelihood and consequence) of failure. For example, a dam with a FoS of 1.4 does not necessarily have a higher probability of failure than a dam with a FoS of 1.6.

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(PDF) Study on Piping Failure of Natural Dam

A three-dimensional groundwater model of the dam was constructed and used in conjunction with properties of the blockage material to examine the dam's stability against failure by heave and piping ...

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Design Slime Presenter Guide - American Chemical Society

mL—the ideal amount to make the slime described in the Design Slime booklet. • Mardi Gras beads are used for the molecular modeling portion of the activity. As written, the beads are used as a demonstration. So the presenter is the only one handling the beads. If you would like students

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Gravitas Minerals to present two papers on ideal clean ...

I believe this could bring about a serious case of remining the coal slimes dams purely to produce this product, which will reduce rehabilitation costs and lengthen the life of slimes dams," predicts Kale. This patent-pending, water-only density separator is at the heart of the solution developed by Gravitas Minerals, known as the Optima ...

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From Tailings to Treasure? Miners Make Money Reprocessing ...

DRD Gold extracted 33,600 ounces of gold, worth nearly US$40 million, in the last quarter of 2013. Mintails, a mine tailings processor, has developed new technology to process 350,000 tons of slimes from its extensive tailings resources. It expects to recover 58 kg of gold per month, and has enough slimes to last until 2025.

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HYDRAULIC TAILINGS

consolidation characteristics in their clay slimes (Bromwell and Raden 1979; Schiffman et al. 1988). A void ratio of 0.8 to 1.3 is typical of many slimes deposits, with (N1 ) values often ranging from 1 to 3. Of particular significance to slope engineering issues is the high specific retention of void water exhibited by slimes.

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MINE CLOSURE TOOLBOX

designed to be used in conjunction with our award-winning Socio-Economic Assessment Toolbox (SEAT 3) to support an integrated approach to risk assessment and sustainable development planning. It can also be used in project development and planning, to ensure that brownfield and greenfield sites are planned and designed with closure in mind.

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Technical Report Design And Evaluation Of Tailings Dams

Slimes are often used to line the upstream face of tailings dams (or lifts). Although slimes may offer a low-cost alternative to other materials, they have several disadvantages that are discussed in Vick (1990) and Ritcey (1989). In addition, it is difficult to determine long-term permeabilities of the slimes.

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What are the different types of tailings storage ...

The main types of TSF's explained: 1. Ponds and Dams. Ponds and dams are most frequently used when refuse materials are collected in a slurry, a mixture of waste material and water. Tailings ponds are used to store slurry, allowing solid materials to collect as sedimentation. Dams are often constructed to prevent spillage of waste material.

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Mine owners automate monitoring with ShapeArray after ...

Mine owners automate monitoring with ShapeArray after Fundão Dam failure. After a rupture in the containment structure at the Fundão dam at the Germano plant in Mariana, Brazil, nearly 32.6 million m 3 of mining tailings were released on November 5, 2015. Downstream, the Santarém dam retained a large portion of the tailings, however, the remaining portion flowed on to Bento Rodrigues ...

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Tailing Disposal Methods and Tailings Dam Construction Design

Tailings Dam Construction Design. of slime is likely to slide and cause the dam to break away. The procedure usually adopted in such cases is to separate the tailing into coarse sand and fines in a classifier, and to use the coarse product to build up the wall ; the remainder of the pulp is discharged into the interior of the dam.

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The ins and outs of tailings dams - Mining Mirror Online

The underground mining has resulted in the requirement for slimes dams (West Dam, Middle Dam and East Dam) within the mine premises. Koffiefontein is one of the world's top kimberlite mines by average value per carat. The mine produces high-value diamonds, a regular proportion of which are beautiful white diamonds between 5 and 30 carats in size.

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Clearing Up Muddy Dams - Water Quality Solutions

Muddy dams are usually the result of soil particles with the same charge of electrons bumping into each other and remaining suspended in the water column. This can be cleared up easily but needs to be done the right way to prevent the issue from returning every time it rains.

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HEADS OF AGREEMENT

CGR as owner of pipelines which run from Boksburg eastwards to the Ergo slimes dam complex ("Ergo Tailings Dams"), and the holder of SRPs and/or other entitlements grant to TCTA: 4.2.1 the right to construct pipelines with the specification and route as depicted on Annexure "B" hereto and indicated with an orange line as the sludge

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Mine water management: the importance of regular dam cleaning

The remaining 1% of suspended solids settle in the buffer dams and pipes. One per cent suspended solids, in a flow of 3000 m 3 /day, will fill a 3 500m 3 dam with solids within 10 months, assuming that the specific gravity of the mud is 1,4kg/ m 3. Critical system failures occur when underground dams fill with mud and silt.

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Tailings dam - Wikipedia

A tailings dam is typically an earth-fill embankment dam used to store byproducts of mining operations after separating the ore from the gangue. Tailings can be liquid, solid, or a slurry of fine particles, and are usually highly toxic and potentially radioactive.Solid tailings are often used as part of the structure itself. Tailings dams rank among the largest engineered structures on earth ...

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Recovery of Iron Values from Iron Ore Slimes of Donimalai ...

During production of calibrated (sized) ore, more than 50 % of the generated fines and rejects (Slimes) cannot be directly utilised in iron making due to its unfavourable granulometry, low iron content, high alumina and silica content. Approximately 10–20 % of the process plant input is discarded as slimes into slime ponds/tailing dams. Tailing dams are now considered as a threat due to ...

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Tailings Dam - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

Jamieson et al. [JAM 15] used a series of very high resolution images (IKONOS, Quickbird, WorldWiew) to measure the accelerating advance of two glaciers in response to the load induced by the deposition of mining residues on these glaciers between 2002 and 2014. The classification of land use from this series of images has helped highlight a rapid advance of Davidov …

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Slimes-dam construction inthegoldmines oftheAnglo …

THE DESIGN OF SLIMES DAMS In the Anglo American Corpo-ration, the design of a dam is JOURNAL OFTHESOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OFMININGANDMETALLURGY normally a collaborative effort be-tween the Civil Engineering and Metallurgical Departments, assist-ance being sought from the Mech-anical and Electrical Departments where necessary.

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PRELIMINARY REPORT - OMAI TAILINGS DAM FAILURE

As shown on Figure 1, the dam crest was at el. 534m and the water level at el. 529.6m at the time of failure. The current water level is about el. 517m, with the slimes surface about 1- 2m below the water level at approximately el. 515m. Thus, virtually all of the impounded water was lost in the failure. In November, 1994 the slimes surface was ...

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Three Ways to Estimate Remaining Useful Life for ...

Three Ways to Estimate Remaining Useful Life for Predictive Maintenance. Remaining useful life (RUL) is the length of time a machine is likely to operate before it requires repair or replacement. By taking RUL into account, engineers can schedule maintenance, optimize operating efficiency, and …

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