Transitional Oil Sands Tailings’ Filterability and Consolidation Behavior
Abstract
Over the past few decades, the oil sands mining industry has taken steps to find ways to speed up the filterability and consolidation of their tailings deposits, which would otherwise take decades to settle and reach the required strength. The initiative has led to deposits that are combinations of sands and fines (
Fields of Study & Subjects
Tailings Management and Properties
Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics
Landfill Environmental Impact Studies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Geosciences
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 271–271
- Publication date
- 5 July 2026
- Language
- EN