Abstract: Moist tamping (MT) is likely the most common sample preparation technique used in the study of tailings, owing to the ability of MT to produce loose, contractive specimens. While the preparation of such loose samples to ...

Abstract: Results from both laboratory and in-situ cone penetration tests (CPTs) on predominantly sandy silt platinum tailings from an operational mine in South Africa are reported. The CPTs were conducted with four different cone ...

Abstract: Tailings dams, which are storage structures for tailings, often are constructed using the tailings itself. A large number of tailings dam failures have been reported recently, especially due to static liquefaction, and can ...