Granular Soils and Contaminant Modeling in Tailing Dams
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Article Title | Granular Soils and Contaminant Modeling in Tailing Dams |
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ERA Journal ID | 201274 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Farhadian, Hadi, Jodeiri Shokri, Behshad and Mirzaghorbanali, Ali |
Editors | Mandzhieva, S.S. |
Journal Title | Minerals |
Journal Citation | 14 (11) |
Article Number | 1134 |
Number of Pages | 13 |
Year | 2024 |
Publisher | MDPI AG |
Place of Publication | Switzerland |
ISSN | 2075-163X |
Web Address (URL) | https://doi.org/10.3390/min14111134 |
Abstract | The granular soils of tailings, encompassing clay, gravel, sand, and silt, play a pivotal role in the behavior and stability of tailings dams. Different types of granular soils significantly influence the tailings material’s strength, compressibility, and permeability. This study highlights the importance of understanding the relationship between soil types and contaminant properties when analyzing solute transport through numerical modeling. Consequently, various soil types were incorporated into the initial tailings dam model to simulate contaminant transport based on solute transport analysis. The findings underscored the essential role of granular soils in contaminant dispersion within tailings dams. Finer particles, such as clay and silt, demonstrated higher adsorption capacities, which slow contaminant movement. In contrast, coarser materials, like sand and gravel, enable faster transport, increasing the potential for rapid dispersion. |
Keywords | granular size; numerical modeling; tailing dam; contaminant |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 401905. Mining engineering |
400502. Civil geotechnical engineering | |
Byline Affiliations | University of Birjand, Iran |
School of Engineering |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/zq367/granular-soils-and-contaminant-modeling-in-tailing-dams
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