Abstract: Many of the mining operations in Western Australia are located in arid and semiarid regions where there is a severe scarcity of freshwater. Most of the processing is carried out using ground water from paleochannels. Much ...

Abstract: The deformation characteristics of artificially cemented calcareous soil subjected to undrained cyclic triaxial loading are investigated at different confining pressure and cyclic stress levels. The influence of cementation ...

Abstract: The mechanism controlling the cyclic shear strength of cemented calcareous soils was investigated based on the results obtained from monotonic and cyclic triaxial tests on two different types of calcareous soil. Undrained ...

Abstract: Over the past decade there has been increasing use of “paste” for backfilling of mined-out voids (“stopes”) in underground mines. Paste backfill is generated from full stream tailings and is almost always placed underground ...

Abstract: Safe and economical storage of tailings is now a major consideration in the operation of many mining operations. Tailings in slurried form, particularly if they have a significant clay content, can take a very long time ...

Abstract: In current underground mining practice, it is common to use tailings, without added cement, to fill mined-out voids (“stopes”). If fine-grained tailings are used, the high placement rates and low permeability can often ...