
Tailings.info Dry Stacking of tailings
These filtered tailings are normally transported by conveyor or truck, deposited, spread and compacted to form an unsaturated tailings deposit (Davies and Rice 2001). This type of tailings storage produces a stable deposit usually requiring no retention bunding and is referred to as 'dry stack'. Figures 1 and 2 show the La Coipa dry stack tailings facility in Chile.
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