Tailings Storage Facilities (TSF) - Challenges, monitoring & best practice

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With an estimated 3,500 active tailings storage facilities (TSFs), tailings dams and tailings ponds across the globe covering approximately one million hectares of land, and an increasing number of failures occurring and being recorded, it’s clear that a fresh look at the reporting and monitoring of these facilities is needed.
Tailings dam design and failures constitute a massive risk for the industry, regulators, facility designers and Engineer’s of Record (EoR), community, environment, and lastly, for operators; posing a significant risk to their safety.
Now more than ever, the monitoring of these facilities and the reporting of dam safety is critical for corporate social responsibility.
Decipher is designed to provide mine tailings operators with key data and insights, enabling you to effectively monitor your TSF and your environmental obligations and compliance.

[@laskuri1393]

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[@darthvader5300]

Just curious. Can uranium mine tailings be SAFEY used as an ULTRA CHEAP sand aggregate tailings SINCE NO ONE WANTS IT BECAUSE THEY ARE SCARED OF IT BY USING GEOPOLYMERS TO LOCK IN ALL OF THAT RESIDUAL RADIOACTIVITY AND IT'S ACCOMPANYING RADIOACTIVE CHEMICALS USED IN PROCESSING IT? The aim is to pour that mixture in a pure geopolymer casing with thick walls and fill it up until it is 12 inches from the top and allow it to dry and pour in a pure geopolymer liquid to seal it off permanently together. The aim is to use these 1 cubic meter blocks as a kind of filler blocks to create mine tailing impoundment dams and reservoirs where non-radioactive mine tailings will be mixed with a mixture of cement powder and slaked lime powder and powdered brick or powdered sodium silicate powder or water glass which is pre-dissolved first before it is added with an additional amount of water as they call it into that cement powder and slaked lime powder and powdered brick or powdered sodium silicate powder or water glass mixture (50% silica and 50% sodium carbonate to make it water soluble) and then mix it with these mine tailings to lock in and solidify and stabilize them into solid artificial rocks. Others are using slaked lime and iron slag powder and powdered sand made from ordinary sand or quartz or quartzite or diatomaceous earth or ordinary river sand.

[@darthvader5300]

Just curious. Can uranium mine tailings be SAFEY used as an ULTRA CHEAP sand aggregate tailings SINCE NO ONE WANTS IT BECAUSE THEY ARE SCARED OF IT BY USING GEOPOLYMERS TO LOCK IN ALL OF THAT RESIDUAL RADIOACTIVITY AND IT'S ACCOMPANYING RADIOACTIVE CHEMICALS USED IN PROCESSING IT? The aim is to pour that mixture in a pure geopolymer casing with thick walls and fill it up until it is 12 inches from the top and allow it to dry and pour in a pure geopolymer liquid to seal it off permanently together. The aim is to use these 1 cubic meter blocks as a kind of filler blocks to create mine tailing impoundment dams and reservoirs where non-radioactive mine tailings will be mixed with a mixture of cement powder and slaked lime powder and powdered brick or powdered sodium silicate powder or water glass which is pre-dissolved first before it is added with an additional amount of water as they call it into that cement powder and slaked lime powder and powdered brick or powdered sodium silicate powder or water glass mixture (50% silica and 50% sodium carbonate to make it water soluble) and then mix it with these mine tailings to lock in and solidify and stabilize them into solid artificial rocks. Others are using slaked lime and iron slag powder and powdered sand made from ordinary sand or quartz or quartzite or diatomaceous earth or ordinary river sand.

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[@darthvader5300]

Just curious. Can uranium mine tailings be SAFEY used as an ULTRA CHEAP sand aggregate tailings SINCE NO ONE WANTS IT BECAUSE THEY ARE SCARED OF IT BY USING GEOPOLYMERS TO LOCK IN ALL OF THAT RESIDUAL RADIOACTIVITY AND IT'S ACCOMPANYING RADIOACTIVE CHEMICALS USED IN PROCESSING IT? The aim is to pour that mixture in a pure geopolymer casing with thick walls and fill it up until it is 12 inches from the top and allow it to dry and pour in a pure geopolymer liquid to seal it off permanently together. The aim is to use these 1 cubic meter blocks as a kind of filler blocks to create mine tailing impoundment dams and reservoirs where non-radioactive mine tailings will be mixed with a mixture of cement powder and slaked lime powder and powdered brick or powdered sodium silicate powder or water glass which is pre-dissolved first before it is added with an additional amount of water as they call it into that cement powder and slaked lime powder and powdered brick or powdered sodium silicate powder or water glass mixture (50% silica and 50% sodium carbonate to make it water soluble) and then mix it with these mine tailings to lock in and solidify and stabilize them into solid artificial rocks. Others are using slaked lime and iron slag powder and powdered sand made from ordinary sand or quartz or quartzite or diatomaceous earth or ordinary river sand.