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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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00:37:53

Episode 193: A conversation with Todd Wisdom

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2025/09/25

Todd is a Principal Consultant (Non-Conventional Tailings) at SRK in Denver, Colorado. Todd and I discuss many aspects regarding technology advancement in the tailings space, and blended tailings and waste rock in particular.

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00:38:35

Episode 192: A conversation with Ed Sage

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2025/09/18

Ed Sage is a Geospatial Solutions Specialist and InSAR Scientist - Satellite Mapping at Viridien, an advanced technology, digital and Earth data company. Ed and I speak of many things InSAR.

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00:32:14

Episode 191: A Conversation with Kathrine Dompierre

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2025/09/11

Katherine is the User Success Manager for Geotechnical Analysis at Seequent. She and I discuss their GeoStudio software.

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00:49:41

Episode 190: A conversation with Rick Friedel

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2025/08/28

Rick is a Principal with Klohn Crippen Berger in Vancouver. He is a geotechnical engineer who says he works with hi clients to find practical and sustainable solutions to their challenges in the mining industry. You can read the article that Rick and I discussed here:https://klohn.com/news-and-events/kcb-featured-in-vancouver-geotechnical-society-magazine/?utm_source=LinkedIn&utm_medium=Social&utm_id=VGS_Magazine

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00:57:42

Episode 189: A conversation with Lakshmin Bachu

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2025/08/21

Lakshmin is a senior director at NexWayv, Inc, a company that specializes in water management projects, especially dams of all sorts. Lakshmin and I discuss various aspects of ai.

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00:32:40

Episode 188: A Second Conversation with Mike O'Kane...

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2025/08/14

Mike is the Founder and Senior Technical Advisor of Okane Consultants. Okane helps mining companies return the land responsibly and safely at the end of a mine’s lifecycle. In this episode Mike and I discuss practical lessons learned from work in mine closure projects.

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00:36:40

Episode 187: A conversation with Ben Murphy

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2025/08/07

Ben has been involved in the mining industry for the majority of his working life and has experienced the industry from some very different perspectives. Firstly working in base metal concentrators around the world (Australia, Indonesia, Ireland and South Africa) in technical and managerial roles. More recently he has worked for mineral processing equipment suppliers. During the pandemic he co-founded the Executive Micro-Certificate in Economic Leadership in Mining offered through MiningEd / BRIMM

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00:56:12

Episode 186: A Conversation with Jeremy Boswell

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2025/07/17

Jeremy is a Senior Associate / Senior Tailing Engineer at Thurber Engineering Ltd. in Calgary. He obtained his Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa, specializing in geotechnical engineering, hydraulic engineering and project management. Fifteen years of his career were spent working for the Fraser Alexander Group, an international specialist tailings contractor based in South Africa, in the fields of

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00:44:24

Episode 185: A second conversation with Juan Ayala

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2025/07/10

Juan is a Senior Geotechnical Engineer at KCB Australia Pty Ltd. in Perth, Australia. Juan and I once again get together to hear about what he's been up to with tailings and geotechnical engineering.

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00:47:45

Episode 184: A Conversation with Chelsea Burdon

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2025/07/03

Chelsea is the President of Elevate Civil Engineering, where she leads civil and geotechnical projects, such as tailings, dams, and mining infrastructure, with a focus on ethical practice and meaningful collaboration with Indigenous communities. Her work supports sustainable, culturally aligned outcomes that reflect both technical expertise and community priorities. Chelsea is also the founder of Co-Creation, a personal and professional development practice offering alignment-based courses and

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00:08:57

Episode 183: A conversation with Chat GPT

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2025/06/26

In this episode I test Chat GPT on its knowledge of the current state of tailings management.

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00:52:00

Episode 182: Another conversation with Mike O'Kane...

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2025/06/04

Mike is the Founder and Senior Technical Advisor of Okane Consultants. Okane helps mining companies return the land responsibly and safely at the end of a mine’s lifecycle. In this episode Mike and I discuss practical lessons learned from work in mine closure projects.

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01:06:30

Episode 181: A conversation with Caius Priscu

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2025/05/29

Caius is a specialist civil geotechnical engineer with over 30 years of experience in dams, embankments and earthworks, from concept studies to detailed engineering to construction management, operation and surveillance, closure and rehabilitation. He is also an adjunct professor at the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering. Caius and I chat about his wonderful career and what he has learned along the way.

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00:36:03

Episode 180: a conversation with Scott Martens

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2025/05/22

Scott has 30 years of technical and leadership experience in geotechnical engineering, with a focus on mining and dam safety. Scott has led multi-disciplinary design teams for complex structures, and served as senior reviewer for high profile, high consequence designs. Scott has managed an engineering group comprising multiple teams and up to 100 total staff, with direct responsibility for annual budgets more than $50 million. Scott led the implementation of the Mining Association of Canada’s

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00:30:23

Episode 179: A conversation with Jason West

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2025/05/07

Jason is the Managing Director of Powerhouse Renewables in Perth, Australia. Powerhouse is seeing good results from some work they've completed with Rio Tinto. Powerhouse is unlike most renewables companies, they not only deliver renewable solutions but they also ensure that the energy transition is optimized through energy efficient technologies.

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01:22:04

Episode 178: a conversation with Mike O'Kane

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2025/04/23

This is a lengthier episode, so buckle in for a long ride.Mike is the Founder and now a Senior Technical Advisor to O'Kane Consultants. Mike is a fellow geotechnical engineer. Okane helps mining companies return the land responsibly and safely at the end of a mine’s lifecycle. They believe in challenging the status quo and advocating for meaningful partnerships and positive outcomes for community stakeholders and Indigenous rightsholders. Their solutions help their clients achieve positive

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00:36:03

Episode 177: a conversation with Debbie Struhsacker

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2025/04/10

Debbie is a hardrock mining policy expert with over 30 years of hands-on expertise with the environmental and public land laws and regulations pertaining to mineral exploration and mine development.She provides environmental permitting and government relations consulting services to mineral exploration and mining clients. She has a proven track record of successfully representing clients in legislative and administrative issues on the state and federal levels and in securing project permits for

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00:41:55

Episode 176: A conversation with Satish Rao (2)

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2025/04/03

Satish is the Managing Director, Clareo, a think tank that is involved in many industrial sectors. As their website says, Clareo is a leading global strategy consulting firm focused on solving complex challenges for the mining, energy, and food sectors. With over 20 years of experience, Clareo collaborates with Fortune 500 clients to develop innovative strategies that drive business transformation and growth.Satish and I discuss the panel discussion he took part in at the MIT Global Summit on Mine

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00:36:23

Episode 175: A conversation with Sina Javankhoshdel

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2025/03/20

Sina is a geomechanics product manager at Rocscience. He led the development and improvement of Slide2 and Slide3, two of the most advanced software tools for LEM slope stability analysis as well as probabilistic and reliability-based approaches to geotechnical design.

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00:45:13

Episode 174: A conversation with Chad LePoudre (Part 2)

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2025/03/13

Chad is an internationally recognized, experienced and competent geotechnical engineer, project and operations manager, executive and technical principal. His nearly 34 working years have benefited from a suite of various experiences and learnings, culminating in a career focused on geoenvironmental engineering, tailings engineering and tailings management. Chad and I speak current trends in the tailings world and provide some advice to engineering students and to those just coming out of

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