Introduction

This course includes an overview of mine waste management, what tailings are, geotechnical and geochemical characteristics of tailings, various tailings storage facility types, and tailings disposal technologies.

The course continues with basis of design for various Tailings Storage Facilities (TSFs), design guidelines based on CDA, ANCOLD and GISTM, the selection of design parameters for tailings dam slope stability and seepage analyses, TSF water management and closure plans.

The course will provide tailings dam construction and operation monitoring, including construction materials and instrumentation. The course concludes by providing investigation of tailings dam failure case studies and closure case studies.

Objectives

Tailings engineering is not a major discipline in universities, and it is an interdisciplinary knowledge covers civil, environmental, mining, and mechanical engineering. The objective of this course is to familiarize engineering students and consultants with different aspects of mine waste and tailings management including step by step TSF design, stability issues, environmental concerns, water management, construction and operation and closure planning. The students are expected to be prepared for tailings engineering careers.

Limited places.

• – Introduction to Mine Waste and Tailings Management
• – Tailings Properties (Geotechnical and Geochemical properties)
• – Tailings Deposition Methods, Tailings Storage Facility (TSF) Types
• – Dewatered Tailings (Thickened, Paste and Filtered Tailings)
• – Tailings Transport
• – Dam Break Assessment and Inundation map
• – Tailings Dam Construction Methods, Stability and Seepage Analysis
• – TSF Water Management
• – TSF Construction, Operation and Monitoring
• – TSF Closure

Farzad Daliri

Dr. Farzad Daliri is a senior geotechnical and tailings engineer with more than 15 years of academic and industrial experience on mine waste and tailings engineering projects in Canada, Australia, South America, Iran, Australia, and Philippines. He received doctoral degree of geotechnical/tailings engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa in 2013. His industrial Ph.D. research focused on the influence of desiccation on geotechnical stability of thickened gold tailings storage facilities. Dr. Daliri has several years of experience working in several provinces of Canada being involved in tailings deposition/TSF design projects and R&D projects related to dewatering and treatment methods of conventional and oil sand tailings. Dr. Daliri has extensive experience of tailings dam design followed by construction and operation monitoring in Australia, Philippines, and South America. He has been involved in various TSF design, geotechnical site investigation, filtered tailings/dry stack design and tailings deposition planning projects.

Dr. Daliri is a registered Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in BC and Ontario Canadian provinces and is a member of American Society of Civil Engineers (M.ASCE).

All of our courses are offered 100% online, through our intuitive Virtual Campus. Topics are taught through:

• – Videos
• – Interactive multimedia content
• – Live classes
• – Texts
• – Case studies
• – Evaluation exercises
• – Additional documentation

The content is updated in each new course edition, so that knowledge is acquired around the latest news and state-of-the-art geotechnical engineering technology.

One of the most interesting aspects of our courses is the use of live videoconferences, in which teachers and students interact in a continuous exchange of knowledge and problem solving. In addition to this, students can make use of the platform’s forum, a meeting point where they can interact with teachers and other students.

A tutoring system will also be established by email, which will resolve any possible doubts about the course, and which will serve as a point of connection for students with specific questions on each module.

Students can also download all course documentation, including texts, videos, video conferences and exercises.

• – Civil, geotechnical, and mining engineering students looking for career opportunities in mines and TSF projects
• – Civil or geotechnical engineers, environmental scientists, hydrologists, hydrogeologists, construction and operations personnel and managers who have an interest in working on tailings management projects
• – Mining industry professionals, engineers, managers, and operators

At the end of the course, and as accreditation of knowledge acquired and of the technical and practical training, students who correctly complete the corresponding evaluation tests of the geotechnical engineering course will obtain an academic certificate issued by Ingeoexpert. This digital certificate is protected by Blockchain technology, making it unique and tamper-proof, thus enabling companies to verify its authenticity.

It can also be downloaded by students, forwarded by email and shared on social networks, as well as embedded on any website. You can see an example here.

• – Tailings Engineering opportunities in consultants and operators
• – Civil/ Geotechnical Engineering opportunities in mining and TSF design projects
• – Geo-environmental Engineering opportunities in mining and tailings projects
• – Mine Waste Management Engineering opportunities in mining industry