The quartzite found in rock formations in the Southwestern Minas Gerais - Brazil has been, along the years, explored and commercialized as “coating stone”. The quantity of waste coming from the processing and exploration process, however, is superior to 90% from the extracted product in most of the mining sites, determining a serious...
View ArticleEntablatures, colonnades and “fault-joints” have been found in many excavations of dam foundations, tunnels and quarries in basaltic rocks of southern Brazil, but frequently they were not formally identified as such, and the two first, only rarely. This lack of recognition led many times to misunderstanding of their importance to slo...
View ArticleApplying Portland cement to soils is an excellent technique when it is necessary to improve local soil for the construction of stabilized pavement bases and to have a support layer for shallow foundations. Consoli et al. (2007, 2009, 2010) developed a rational dosage methodology for artificially cemented soils based on porosity/ceme...
View ArticleDeposit formation back analysis of a two-year iron ore slime impoundment managed by the sub-aerial method is performed using two complementary approaches. The first one tries to identify the deposit stratigraphy and its formation history. This is made possible through sorted document review (reports, design documents, personal communication, photos, etc...
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