Paste: the next generation

Chris Lee, managing principal for paste engineering and design at Golder Associates, evaluates the use of modified tailings and additives as a backfill medium and outlines some of the options available to optimise paste fill operations

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The mining industry has experienced a major shift in backfill system design over the past 15 years with many new backfill systems using cemented paste fill rather than cemented hydraulic fill or

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