SC1 - Fundamentals of Tailings Engineering_2025

The course will be offered hybrid, with recorded, on-demand lectures combined with live panel sessions. There will be nine 60-min lectures that will be available on-demand to registrants three weeks prior to the live panels. All content (lectures and panels) will be available asynchronously for up to two weeks after the course ends.

This course is a broad overview of mine tailings with the objective of providing participants the fundamentals needed to engage in conversations, project, research, and subsequent learning opportunities on mine tailings. The broad overview will start with the generation of mine tailings in mining practices and end with discussions on key factors that factor into the engineering design of tailings storage facilities. Topics covered in the course include the following: generation of tailings in mining; tailings characteristics; geoenvironmental aspects of tailings; dewatering and the tailings continuum; tailings geotechnics; introduction to critical state soil mechanics; and engineering parameters of mine tailings.

Host or Publisher TAILENG