Date
11 May 1984, 8:00 am - 10:30 am
Abstract
For the benefit of those readers not fully conversant with mine tailings and the methods commonly used to store them, the paper presents a brief overview covering the composition of tailings and the procedures commonly used to design and construct the required tailings dams. The remainder of the paper presents a detailed description of the design, construction, and performance of the Brenda Cycloned-Sand Tailings Dam. This includes a summary and assessment of the large volume of data available from extensive field, laboratory, and office studies that have been ongoing since the start of construction in 1968. The most recent of these studies (1980-83) involved "state-of-the-art" seismic analyses to determine if the original dam could be raised to an ultimate height of 530 ft and remain stable under the maximum credible earthquake for the site.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
1st Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1984 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Klohn, Earle J., "The Brenda Mines' Cycloned- Sand Tailings Dam" (1984). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 46.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/1icchge/1icchge-theme9/46
The Brenda Mines' Cycloned- Sand Tailings Dam
For the benefit of those readers not fully conversant with mine tailings and the methods commonly used to store them, the paper presents a brief overview covering the composition of tailings and the procedures commonly used to design and construct the required tailings dams. The remainder of the paper presents a detailed description of the design, construction, and performance of the Brenda Cycloned-Sand Tailings Dam. This includes a summary and assessment of the large volume of data available from extensive field, laboratory, and office studies that have been ongoing since the start of construction in 1968. The most recent of these studies (1980-83) involved "state-of-the-art" seismic analyses to determine if the original dam could be raised to an ultimate height of 530 ft and remain stable under the maximum credible earthquake for the site.
