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https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP200200216
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Accelerating Consolidation and Closure of Mine Tailings Storage Facilities. All mining operations involve the production of waste. Many regard such waste (tailings) and their environmentally acceptable storage as constituting the largest waste problem on Earth because of the enormous damage and loss-of-life that have resulted from failures of tailings storage facilities. This project focuses on a dewatering technology, electro-osmosis (EO), which has yet to be fully operationalised, for improving the strength, stability and settlement characteristics of the tailings. Sophisticated testing will be undertaken at three scales (lab, meso and, most importantly, field), as well as the development of generic numerical models, to create practical guidelines to facilitate the implementation of EO in mines around the world.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 03-2022
End Date: 03-2025
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $376,265.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Civil Engineering | Civil Geotechnical Engineering | Geomechanics and Resources Geotechnical Engineering
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Management of Solid Waste from Mineral Resource Activities | Management of Water Consumption by Mineral Resource Activities |
