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RECORD NUMBER: 1696 OF 3326Main Title | Geotechnical engineering for mine waste storage facilities / | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Author | Blight, G. E. ; Blight, Geoffrey, | |||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher | CRC Press, | |||||||||||||||||||||
Year Published | 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||
OCLC Number | 277196116 | |||||||||||||||||||||
ISBN | 9780415468282 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0415468280 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780203859407 (ebk.); 0203859405 (ebk.) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Subjects | Mineral industries--Waste disposal ; Waste disposal in the ground ; Environmental geotechnology ; Engineering geology ; Soil mechanics | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Collation | xx, 634 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 26 cm. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Notes | "Balkema book." Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents Notes | 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. |