Assessment of the Geofiltration Regime at Tailings Storage Sites with the Development of Recommendations for Preventing Filtration

• Published in: Power technology and engineering Vol. 58; no. 3; pp. 383 - 390
• Main Authors: Kotlov, O. N., Vilkevich, E. V., Rozhdestvenskaya, V. V., Legina, E. E., Kuzmin, N. V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Construction sites; Electrical Machines and Networks; Energy; Energy Systems; Environmental protection; Filtration; Flotation; Foundations; Geoengineering; Gold ores; Hydraulics; Power Electronics; Renewable and Green Energy; Storage facilities; Tailings; geofiltration regime; filtration; flotation tailings; tailings storage facility; hydraulic structures; filtration properties of soils; impervious element
• ISSN: 1570-145X; 1570-1468
• DOI: 10.1007/s10749-024-01823-w

The object of research was the territory of a planned construction of the second stage of a tailings storage facility for flotation tailings of a mining and processing complex based on a gold ore field. To comply with legislative and regulatory requirements regarding environmental protection, a set of works was performed, including laboratory and computational filtration studies. Recommendations were developed based on them to prevent filtration through the flotation tailings storage bed.