The 2011 Tailings and Mine Conference brought together almost 400 people from 15 countries to discuss an array of topics including mine closure/reclamation, tailings slurry management, rock piles, oil sands tailings, tailings consolidation, block modeling and related environmental and geotechnical themes.

Over 70 papers are available online for free through InfoMine’s library and on the cIRcle database at the University of British Columbia.  The presentations will also be available in the upcoming days.

A limited number of conference proceedings books are available for purchase in the InfoMine eStore.

InfoMine was the Secretariat for the Tailings and Mine Waste conference.

Join us next year at Tailings and Mine Waste 2012 in Keystone, CO from Oct 14-17.

Over thirty new editable mine cost models and commodity cost curves are now available in the InfoMine eStore.
The mine cost models are spreadsheets comprising of production costs, operating costs, revenue, cash flows, and more, applicable to several open pit and underground mines.
The commodity cost curve spreadsheets compare production and cost data for several mines producing the respective commodity.

For more information and to purchase these cost models, please visit the InfoMine eStore.

InfoMine has added Lithium as a new commodity page on CommodityMine. News, mining companies, mineral properties, publications and links specific to lithium mining are given.

Check out our Commodity pages for all the latest news, career opportunities, events, links, and more.

According to Wikipedia, lithium is an important ingredient in anode materials.

It is used in Lithium-ion batteries because of its high electrochemical potential, light weight, and high current density.

You can review all our commodity pages here.