Tailings & Mine Waste 2026
Join SLR at Tailings & Mine Waste Conference 2026
SLR is proud to participate in the Tailings and Mine Waste Conference, one of the mining industry's most respected forums for advancing best practices in tailings and mine waste management.
As mining companies face increasing expectations around safety, environmental performance, governance, and social responsibility, effective tailings management has become a critical business and risk management priority. SLR helps clients navigate these challenges through integrated solutions that span the full lifecycle of tailings storage facilities (TSFs), heap leach pads, and waste rock facilities.
With more than 2,000 mining professionals across 25 countries, SLR combines expertise in geotechnical engineering, water management, environmental assessment, governance, and GISTM conformance to support safe, sustainable, and resilient mining operations worldwide. Connect with our team to learn how we're helping mining companies reduce risk, improve performance, and build confidence in their tailings and mine waste management strategies.
Connect with our team to learn how we're helping mining companies reduce risk, improve performance, and build confidence in their tailings and mine waste management strategies.
About Our Presentations
Moving beyond simplified assumptions in tailings modelling.
Recent Tailings Storage Facilities (TSF) failures have reinforced the need for a deeper understanding of how tailings materials and facilities respond under static and seismic loading.
Our Senior Tailings Engineer, Juan Escobar examines the influence of anisotropy through two advanced constitutive models, identifying important differences in deformation patterns and dynamic behavior.
Join us at the Tailings & Mine Waste Conference 2026 to explore how deeper material characterization and advanced modelling can support better-informed tailings engineering decisions.
Many tailings failures are examined through the lens of design, construction, or operations. But could their origins lie much earlier in the decision-making process?
This presentation investigates how bias in tailings management system selection can influence outcomes throughout the entire facility lifecycle, from concept and operation through to closure and post-closure stewardship.
Capital pressures, schedule constraints, and reliance on familiar technologies can all influence the selection of tailings management systems long before the full picture is understood.
Our Technical Director - Geotechnics and Mine Waste Engineering, Danielle O’Toole, will participate in the Tailing & Mine Waste conference, where she highlights the importance of preserving optionality, applying consequence-based evaluation, and strengthening governance throughout the decision-making process, and thus moving beyond precedent-driven approaches toward more transparent, lifecycle-focused tailings management.
Are filtered tailings facilities really a lower-risk solution, or are risks simply being redistributed?
As the industry accelerates the adoption of dry stack, paste, and thickened tailings technologies, understanding the difference between risk reduction and risk transformation has never been more important.
Join us at the Tailings & Mine Waste Conference to explore how a systems-based approach can help unlock the benefits of filtered tailings while managing the new challenges they create.
Our Tailings & Mine Waste in Person attendees are:
- Danielle O'Toole - Technical Director, Geotechnics and Mine Waste Engineering – Asia Pacific
- Ezra Coyle - Senior Engineer
- Juan Escobar - Senior Tailings Engineer
- Keith Viles - Senior Principal Engineer
- Matthew Behling - Principal Engineer
- Nelson Amoah - Technical Director, Mine Waste Engineering – Asia Pacific
- Terry Mandziak - US Manager of Mine Waste Engineering
