Tailings dam design guidelines

Tailings dam designs need to account for site-specific conditions, such as climate, physiography, geochemistry, geomorphology, seismology, mining processes, environment, and community setting, with the application of technologies playing an important role in developing safe, sustainable tailings These guidelines suggest that conventional earthfill dams and tailings dams share many of the same design criteria (for example, factor of safety against sliding failure). However, given that tailings dams must last in perpetuity, the tailings dam designer must recognize that they are de-signing for a Stages of closure and guidelines for closure design. 200121.Tailings Dam Safety Bulletin - Preliminary Draft for Review.docx. The Guidelines cover tailings dams and associated infrastructure (known collectively as tailings storage facilities, TSFs). Guidelines on tailings dam design, construction and operation (Draft). Guidelines on the safe design and operating standards for tailing storages. 13. TAILINGS STORAGE DATA SHEET Please complete a separate sheet for each tailings storage facility (TSF) 1. Dam Safety Program Implementation • Guidelines provide templates and flow sheets for dam safety programs • Operator must translate these into activities that can be carried out at the tailings management site to create an effective dam safety program. British Sub - Committee on Tailings Dams, 2001, 145 pages. The aim of this Bulletin (121) is to highlight and learn from some of the difficulties commonly encountered to help owners Guidelines on Tailings Dam Design, Construction and Operation. Australian National Committee on Large Dams. tailings dams contain hazardous substances, so proper treatment can prevent them from leaking and causing incalculable losses to the The failure of tailing dams is a major concern in mineral processing. It generally occurs due to design failure or structural complexity as discussed below GUIDELINES ON TAILINGS DAMS Resolution Copper. - 5 0 Design Tailings Storage Capacity and Water Management 32 5 1 Design Criteria 32 5 1 1 Tailings Storage Capacity 32 5 1 2 Minimum Decant Storage Capacity 32 5 1 3 Non Release Dams Design Storage Allowance 34 5 1 4 Spillways Does anyone have some guidelines on the design of high Tailings Dams? RE: Design of Tailings Dams. cvg (Civil/Environmental) 18 Sep 06 10:55. post this in the geotechnical forum and hire a geotechnical engineer with a specialty in mine tailings dams. Dams which are under the jurisdiction of the Dam Safety Office (DSO) of the Department of Ecology are defined by statute (Chapter 90_03 RCW) and rule (Chapter 173-175 WAC) to be stmctures which can impound more than 10 acre-feet ofwater_ This definition is broad in scope and applies to typical The Dam Safety Guidelines cover general aspects of planning, designing, construction, operation and decommissioning from which the design requirements are Therefore, designing and construction requirements have been well elaborated in these guidelines including Tailings Storage Facility (TSF). Design depends on the quantity and the individual characteristics of the tailings produced by the mining operation, as well as the climatic, topographic, geologic, hydro-geologic and geotechnical characteristics of the disposal site, and on regulatory requirements related to dam safety and to Design depends on the quantity and the individual characteristics of the tailings produced by the mining operation, as well as the climatic, topographic, geologic, hydro-geologic and geotechnical characteristics of the disposal site, and on regulatory requirements related to dam safety and to Tailings dams are not designed to be free draining after facility closure. For potentially acid-generating tailings it is usually the objective to keep this material 2005. Guidelines for Cooperation with the Alaska Dam Safety Program. Dam Safety and Construction Unit, Water Re-sources Section, Div. of (1979), Design, construction and repair of tailings dams for metal mine waste disposal, ASCE, Current Geotechnical Practice in Mine Waste Disposal. Smith, M.E., Bentel, D.L., and Robertze, J.B. (1987), Management guidelines for the construction of gold tailings dams, Proceedings, Intemational