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Behind the Scenes with Bryan

This is generally an engineering podcast that often pertains to the world of mining, and especially mining waste management, or whatever else captures my imagination. The episodes, thankfully, will be fairly brief.

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00:41:41

Episode 153: A conversation with Joe Scalia

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2024/05/02

Joe is an Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University. Amongst other things Joe and I discuss cover design and longevity and the need to get more engineering students interested in tailings.

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00:37:51

Episode 152: A conversation with Dr. Ashok Ghosh

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2024/04/25

Ashok is an Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Adjunct Faculty, Civil Engineering , New Mexico Tech at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Ashok and I discuss his involvement in green desalination using forward osmosis.

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00:28:23

Episode 151: A conversation with Rens Verburg

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2024/04/19

Rens is a Technical Fellow with WSP and a geochemist with more than 30 years of experience in the mining industry.

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00:30:07

Episode 150: A conversation with Carlo Cooper

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2024/03/28

Carlo is a director at Minebridge Software, the developers of Muk3D.Carlo and I chat about the capabilities of is software and how it's making TSF design simpler and better.

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00:35:25

Episode 149: A conversation with Carlos Hubner

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2024/03/07

Carlos is the RTFE at the Cobre Panama mine which is owned by First Quantum Minerals. The mine is currently under shutdown orders by the Panamanian government. Carlos and I discuss the challenges of maintaining a tailings facility that is in hiatus.

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00:52:33

Episode 148: a conversation with Lindsay Newland Bowker

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2024/02/22

Lindsay is an expert in risk management and Executive Director at World Mine Tailings Failures. We discuss here amazing career, and her involvement in tailings which came to her later in life.

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00:33:19

Episode 147: A conversation with Justin Walls.

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2024/02/15

Justin is an Associate Partner and Principal Civil Engineer at SRK in Johannesburg, South Africa, specializing in mine closure. Justin and I discuss his approach to closure projects.

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01:09:33

Episode 146: A conversation with Tim Fitton

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2024/02/08

Tim Fitton is an independent tailings/geotechnical engineer in Australia, running Fitton Tailings Consultants. Amongst other things Tim and I discuss tailings beach slope prediction.

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00:29:36

Episode 145: A conversation with Marcelo Llano

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2024/01/18

Marcelo is a geotechnical engineer with Red Earth Engineering Pty Ltd, now a part of Geosyntec. In this episode Marcelo discusses the material point method (MPM) and the consequences of getting dam breach analysis wrong.

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00:38:40

Episode 144: A conversation with Vikram Yadav

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2024/01/12

Vikram Yadav is an Associate Professor in the chemical and biological engineering department at the University of British Columbia and the Director, MEL Program in Sustainable Process Engineering. He is also the Co-Founder of Tersa Earth Innovations. The company is advancing unique biological technologies that extract toxins, metals and metalloids from mine water.

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00:28:14

Episode 143: A conversation with Greg Beischer

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2024/01/04

Greg is the Chief Executive Officer and President of Alaska Energy Metals Corporation. Alaska Energy MetalsCorporation (AEMC) is working on a large-scale nickel project in Central Alaska to safeguard America’s energy future, stemming from the heightened demand for electric vehicles (EV). The demand for nickel is skyrocketing because of its use in EV batteries. AEMC believes nickel will be the main limiting factor on America’s ability to transition fully to EVs because it is vulnerable to supply

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00:27:35

Episode 142: A conversation with Mike Ravella

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2023/12/28

Mike Ravella is the Chief Innovation Officer at Veracio. In this episode we discuss Veracio’s research, innovation and technology for the mining industry.

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00:48:37

Episode 141: A conversation with Sabrina Dias

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2023/12/13

Sabrina is the founder and CEO of SOOP Strategies. We talk about her amazing career and what SOOP does for their clients. SOOP offers mining and sustainability expertise services to the extractives sector. You can find out more about her and her company at https://www.soopstrategies.com/

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00:28:35

Episode 140: A conversation with Matthew Gialich from...

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2023/11/30

Matt is the co-Founder and CEO at AstroForge, an ambitious company who was partnered with Elon Musk's SpaceX in hopes of mining platinum group metals from a near-earth asteroid. Matt and I discuss this seemingly sci-fi journey into space mining.

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00:23:12

Episode 139: A conversation with Marco Arreta

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2023/11/15

Marco is the Head of Geotechnical Department - Line Creek Operation for Teck Resources. Marco is researching the shear strength characteristics of waste rock and rock fill.

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00:36:18

Episode 138: A conversation with Ken Rahal

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2023/10/26

Ken is the Director of Tailings Solutions at FLSmidth. Amongst other things, Ken and I discuss the current practices and trends in filtration and Ecotails.

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00:25:08

Episode 137: A conversation with Satish Rao

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2023/10/18

Satish Rao is a business advisor and a mining expert helping shape the future of sustainable growth for the industrial economy. Currently, he serves as a managing director at Clareo, a global strategy firm, where he focuses on energy, resources, and materials. Rao helps businesses transform to meet future decarbonization, ESG, sustainability, and growth objectives. He has advised some of the world’s leading resources, energy, and advanced materials companies such as BHP, Rio Tinto, Anglo American,

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00:24:44

Episode 136: A conversation with Alex Pienaar

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2023/10/05

In this episode I speak with Alex Pienaar from Bentley Systems, specifically about their data management systems, iTwin IoT and sensemetrics.

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00:02:08

Episode 135: Snoop does the tailings rap

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2023/09/12

Don't blame this on Snoop. It’s parody.

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00:24:57

Episode 134: A conversation with Michael Ingwersen...

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2023/09/07

Michael and I primarily discuss the goals of his company, Circular Mine, which is to reduce/eliminate mine waste primarily by finding viable uses for it. You can find out more about Circular Mine at www.Circular Mine.com Michael spoke about a project with AMIRA that is looking for sponsors. To be a sponsor you need to be a member of AMIRA. If anyone is interested, you could reach out to Silvia Black at silvia.black@amira.global

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