Geotechnical engineering for mine waste storage facilities
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| Format | eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Boca Raton :
CRC Press,
c2010.
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| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9780203859407 |
| Physical Description | xx, 634 p. : ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- ch. 1. Waste engineering, characteristics of mine wastes and types of waste storage
- ch. 2. Selection of a site for storage of mine waste
- ch. 3. Geotechnical exploration of sites for development of mine waste storages
- ch. 4. Environmental and engineering characteristics of mine waste, including stress and strain analysis and laboratory shear testing
- ch. 5. In situ shear strength testing of tailings and other waste materials and its interpretation
- ch. 6. Measuring the coefficient of permeability in the laboratory and in situ, seepage flow nets, drains and linings, geosynthetics, geomembranes and GCL's
- ch. 7. The mechanics of compaction
- ch. 8. Methods for constructing impounding dykes for storing hydraulically transported tailings and other fine-grained wastes
- ch. 9. Water control and functional and safety monitoring for hydraulic fill tailings storages and dry dumps. Safety appraisal. Special considerations for carbonaceous and radioactive wastes
- ch. 10. Water balances for tailings storage facilities and dry waste dumps
- ch. 11. Failures of mine waste storages
- ch. 12. Surface stability of tailings storages slopes : erosion rates, slope geometry and engineered erosion protection
- ch. 13. The use of mine waste for backfilling of mining voids and as a construction material.