Resource
Backfill depleted open-pit mines with lined landfills, tailings, and heap leach pads
Resource Type
News Articles (Industry Outlets)
Reference Title
Backfill depleted open-pit mines with lined landfills, tailings, and heap leach pads
Organization/Agency
Industrial Fabrics Association International
Publisher Name
Industrial Fabrics Association International
Year
2010
Date
04-05/2010
Journal Title
Geosynthetics
Journal Volume
28
Journal Issue
2
ISBN/ISSN
ISSN: 0882-4983
Topic Location
Arizona
New Mexico
South Carolina
Spain
Virginia
Abstract/Additional Information
Article discusses recent historic use and primary engineering concerns and benefits in lining, backfilling and operating depleted open-pit mine excavations for containment of solid waste, tailings and ore heap fills. Cited projects include El Valle mine pit in northern Spain, a geomembrane-lined mine pit backfilled with conventional tailings; an above-ground lined tailings impoundment contained by a compacted earthfill dam embankment in South Carolina; mine pits in Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona.
