Mine Tailings
Fundamental and Engineering Aspects of Colloidal/Fine Mine Wastes
- 1st Edition - November 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Akira Otsuki, Adrian Keith R. Caamiño, Sibele Nascimento
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 7 5 2 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 7 5 3 - 6
Mine Tailings: Fundamental and Engineering Aspects of Colloidal/Fine Mine Wastes closely examines mine waste and issues related to storage, safety, the environment, water, and su… Read more
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Request a sales quoteMine Tailings: Fundamental and Engineering Aspects of Colloidal/Fine Mine Wastes closely examines mine waste and issues related to storage, safety, the environment, water, and sustainability. The book opens with a review of the regulations and global standards of tailings management along with a look at common types of tailings storage facilities. Several chapters detail the behavior of tailings materials, such as particle interactions and dispersion/aggregation, rheology of mineral suspensions, soil mechanics, and toxic substance treatment. There is an in-depth look at managing the closure of mine waste management facilities as well as the safety of tailings storage facilities. Finally, the authors examine the environmental, social, and government factors necessary for sustainable mining operations. This text provides a valuable resource for researchers and engineers interested in understanding and mitigating the impacts of mine waste.
- Examines the fundamental aspects of mine tailings and their implications on global mining industry as well as relevant new technologies.
- Explores the characterization and evaluation of mine tailings behavior under different chemical and physical environments.
- Provides in-depth discussion on issues related to the environment, energy, water, sustainability, and circular economy.
Researchers, scientists, and engineers in mining, mineral processing, geology, geometallurgy, water treatment, and environmental engineering
1. Introduction
2. Regulations and global standards of tailings management
3. Tailings storage facilities, waste rock dumps, heap leaching facilities
4. Behavior of tailings materials: particle interactions and dispersion/aggregation
5. Behavior of tailings materials: rheology of mineral suspensions
6. Behavior of tailings materials: soil mechanics
7. Behavior of tailings materials: value extraction and toxic substance treatment
8. Design, operation, monitoring, and closure of mine waste management facilities
9. Tailings dam risk and safety management of tailings storage facilities
10. Environmental, social, and government factors and needs for sustainable mining operations
2. Regulations and global standards of tailings management
3. Tailings storage facilities, waste rock dumps, heap leaching facilities
4. Behavior of tailings materials: particle interactions and dispersion/aggregation
5. Behavior of tailings materials: rheology of mineral suspensions
6. Behavior of tailings materials: soil mechanics
7. Behavior of tailings materials: value extraction and toxic substance treatment
8. Design, operation, monitoring, and closure of mine waste management facilities
9. Tailings dam risk and safety management of tailings storage facilities
10. Environmental, social, and government factors and needs for sustainable mining operations
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 350
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443337529
- eBook ISBN: 9780443337536
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Akira Otsuki
Dr. Akira Otsuki is a Visiting Professor at Luleå University of Technology, and the Unit coordinator and leading professor of the unit “Mine Tailings” at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. He is a member of several academic societies as well as an editor of academic journals including ChemEngineering and Recycling. He also serves as a guest editor of special issues, including “Colloidal/Fine Particle Aspects of Mine Tailings”. His research focuses on characterization and processing of complex materials, including waste materials, natural ores, and colloids. He has been developing and running national and international research projects on his research focuses.
Affiliations and expertise
Visiting Professor, Luleå University of Technology. Unit Coordinator and Leading Professor, Unit “Mine Tailings”, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez., SwedenAC
Adrian Keith R. Caamiño
Adrian Keith R. Caamiño is currently a Faculty of the Mining Engineering Program of the Department of Materials and Resources Engineering & Technology of Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology in the Philippines. He recently obtained his Master of Science in Resources Engineering degree from the 'Université de Liège in Belgium as his host institution together with the Université de Lorraine and Luleå University of Technology as partner universities. His research focuses on geometallurgy, characterization of materials, resource estimation as well as mine water quality assessment and mine water treatment. He continues to mentor and involves himself on different research projects related to his research interest.
Affiliations and expertise
Faculty of the Mining Engineering Program, Department of Materials and Resources Engineering & Technology, Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology, PhilippinesSN
Sibele Nascimento
Dr. Sibele Nascimento is a mining engineer, with specialization in georesources and extensive experience in mine wastes characterization. For her PhD, she characterized the Queen and the King River system to evaluate the environmental impacts of one of the worst cases of acid mine drainage in Australia and to assess the economic potential for the tailings stored in the King River delta. Previously, she concluded a master’s degree in the EIT labelled Emerald master’s in resources engineering in Europe, with a robust background in mineral characterization, geochemistry, mineral processing, geometallurgy and circular economy. Currently, Sibele works for the University of Queensland and does mineralogical and geochemical characterization of mine wastes across Australia.
Affiliations and expertise
The University of Queensland, Australia