Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Tailings, tailing, or tails /J.D.Nelson -- Regulatory considerations -- A collaborative approach for mine waste cleanup - The Animas River experience /G.Broetzman & G.Parsons -- Title V permitting issues for the mining and minerals processing industries /D.H.Gebhart -- Mine closure regulations and activity: Nevada style /D.A.Jones -- Use of the new ecological risk screening guidelines to drive down remedial costs at mine tailings sites /R.Braun, M.Saunders, J.Booras & J.Tucker -- Design and operation -- Geometrical control and operational analysis of tailings dams /E.I.Reid -- Design evolution of tailings dams at Inco Sudbury /T.E.Martin & I.Tissington -- Investigation of chemical clogging of drains at Inco's Central Area tailings dams /H.D.Plewes & T.McDonald -- Volume reduction of oil sands fine tails utilizing nonsegregating tailings /Y.B.Liu, D.L.Caughill, W.Shaw,; E.Lord, R.Burns & J.D.Scott -- Tailings impoundment design - Striving for balance /R.R.Davidson, P.A Stauffer & R.E.Moran -- Management of fine tailings /H.K.Mittal &N.Holl -- Seismic cone penetration testing for evaluating the compressibility and liquefaction potential of mine tailings /D.J.Woeller, PK.Robertson, T.J.Boyd, J.Greig & I.Weemees -- Design considerations for tailings dams /R.C.Lo & E.J.Klohn -- Cost effective backfill design for a reclamation impoundment /J.M.Pool, T.W.Hardgrove &J.F.Crouch -- The evaluation of thickened tailings in a seismic area /B.McMahon, J.T.Phillips & W.A Hutton -- Geotechnical considerations -- Behavior and properties of phosphorus contaminated sludge /A.C.Jones, I.Arango & J.Brummer -- Hydraulic conductivity of oil shale solid waste /J.PTurner & S.Rangarajan -- Development and shear strength parameters of paste backfill /L.Bodi, G.Hunt & T.Lahnalampi -- A field study of the consolidation behaviour of saline gold tailings /T.Newson, Y.Fujiyasu & M.Fahey -- Field tests evaluating freeze-thaw dewatering of fine tailing
