Tailings Challenge E-Seminar: Soft Tailings Capping Technology

COSIA Challenges provide focused, actionable descriptions of the current state of certain Gaps as well as the desired outcomes without prescribing the means for reaching them.

The Soft Tailings Capping Technology challenge was launched in November 2017. The solution will involve cost-efficient methods to stabilize, cap and reclaim fines-dominated tailings deposits more than 10 metres deep that originate from treated fluid fine tailings applications.

Learn first-hand how you or your organization can help build solutions.

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Presenter: Jennifer Haverhals, Senior Regulatory Advisor, Imperial

Bonus Presentation: Soft Tailings Capping Workshop Results

Additionally, conclusions from COSIA’s Deep Deposit Working Group Soft Tailings Capping Workshop will be shared. The purpose of this workshop was to understand state-of-the art practice for deposit capping as it relates to oil sands soft tailings and synergies between various capping techniques and deposit substrates for terrestrial or wetland reclaimed landscapes.

Paul Cavanagh, Senior Technical Advisor, Imperial, will share updates on:

• International case histories and experiences

• Tailings research taking place at Carleton University and the University of Alberta