Publications


Theses

Ghahramani, N. (2023). Improved empirical and numerical predictive modelling of potential tailings dam breaches and their downstream impacts. PhD Thesis, University of British Columbia.

Rana, N.M. (2023). Global Study of Tailings Dam Failures by Statistical and Remote Sensing Methods. PhD Thesis, University of Waterloo.

Adria, D. A. M. (2022). Compilation and critical assessment of observations from a selection of historical tailings dam breach events for numerical breach and runout modelling. MASc Thesis, University of British Columbia.

Barlow, K. (2022) Numerical Simulation of Dam Breach with XBeach. MASc Thesis, Queen’s University.

Walsh, A. (2020) Physical Modelling of Tailings Dam Breach. MASc Thesis, Queen’s University.

Journal Articles

Adria, D., Ghahramani, N., Rana, N., Martin, V., McDougall, S., Evans, S.G. and Take, W.A. (2023). Insights from the compilation and critical assessment of breach and runout characteristics from historical tailings dam failures: implications for numerical modelling. Mine Water and the Environment.

Ghahramani, N., Adria, D., Rana, N., Llano-Serna, M., McDougall, S., Evans, S.G. and Take, W.A. (in press). Analysis of uncertainty and sensitivity in tailings dam breach runout numerical modelling. Mine Water and the Environment.

Rana, N.M., Ghahramani, N., Evans, S.G., Small, A., Skermer, N., McDougall, S., Take, W. A., 2022. Global magnitude-frequency statistics of the failures and impacts of large water-retention dams and mine tailings impoundments. Earth-Science Reviews, 104144.

Rana, N.M., Ghahramani, N., Evans, S.G., Small, A., Skermer, N., McDougall, S., Take, W. A., 2022. Supplementary Materials to "Global Magnitude-Frequency Statistics of the Failures and Impacts of Large Water-Retention Dams and Mine Tailings Impoundments". Borealis, V2.

Ghahramani, N., Chen, H.J., Clohan, D., Liu, S., Llano-Serna, M., Rana, N.M., McDougall, S., Evans, S.G., Take, W.A., 2022. A benchmarking study of four numerical runout models for the simulation of tailings flows. Science of the Total Environment, 154245.

Innis, S., Ghahramani, N., Rana, N.M., McDougall, S., Take, W.A., Kunz, N.C., 2022. The development and demonstration of a semi-automated regional scale hazard mapping tool for tailings storage facility failures. Resources 11(10), 82.

Walsh, A., McDougall, S., Evans, S.G. and Take, W.A. (2021) Effect of upstream dam geometry on peak discharge during overtopping breach in noncohesive homogeneous embankment dams: implications for tailings dams. Water Resources Research.

Rana, N. M., N. Ghahramani, S. G. Evans, S. McDougall, A. Small, and W. A. Take. 2021. "Catastrophic mass flows resulting from tailings impoundment failures". Engineering Geology, 106262.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2021.106262.

Ghahramani N., A. Mitchell, N. M. Rana, S. McDougall, S. G. Evans, and W. A. Take. 2020. "Tailings-Flow Runout Analysis: Examining the Applicability of a Semi-Physical Area–Volume Relationship Using a Novel Database." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 20 (12): 3425–38. doi:10.5194/nhess-20-3425-2020.


Conferences and Other Articles

Ghahramani, N., Adria, D., Innis, S., Rana, N.M., Dina, E., Kunz, N., Evans, S.G., Take, W.A. and McDougall, S. (2023). Methods for empirical and numerical analysis of tailings flow runout. Proceedings of Tailings and Mine Waste 2023.

Rana, N.M., Ghahramani, N., Small, A., McDougall, S., Take, W.A. and Evans, S.G. (2023). Improvements in case history knowledge for tailings dam failures by statistical and remote sensing methods. Proceedings of Tailings and Mine Waste 2023.

McKellar, M., Walsh, A., Barlow, K., Mulligan, R.P., McDougall, S., Evans, S.G. and Take, W.A. (2023). Physical and numerical modelling of tailings dam breach processes. Proceedings of Tailings and Mine Waste 2023.

Adria, D., McDougall, S. and Evans, S.G. (2022) Parametric Method for Tailings Dam Breaches. Geoscience BC Summary of Activities 2021: Minerals and Mining, Geoscience BC, Report 2022-01.

Rana, N., Ghahramani, N., Evans, S.G., McDougall, S. and Take, W.A. (2021) The magnitude-frequency of tailings-flows resulting from failures of tailings impoundments. Proceedings of Tailings and Mine Waste 2021.

Adria, D., Ghahramani, N., Cen, A., Rana, N., McDougall, S., Evans, S.G. and Take, W.A. (2021) Advancements in the modelling of tailings dam breaches. Proceedings of Tailings and Mine Waste 2021.

McKellar, M. (2021) Physical modelling of tailings dam breach: exploring overtopping following seepage failure. Canadian Geotechnical Society Graduate Student Presentation Award 1st Prize, GeoNiagara.

Ghahramani N., N. M. Rana, S. Liu, H. J. Chen, D. Clohan, S. McDougall, S. G. Evans and W. A. Take. 2021. "A preliminary benchmarking numerical modelling exercise for tailings flow runout analysis". In: Proceedings of Mine Waste and Tailings Conference 2021. 1-2 July, Brisbane, Australia, 433-443.

Rana, N. M., N. Ghahramani, S. G. Evans, S. McDougall, and W. A. Take. 2021. "Analysis of downstream field behaviour of long-runout tailings flows using remote sensing". In: Proceedings of the International Mine Waste and Tailings Conference, July 1-2, Brisbane, Australia.

Innis S., N. Ghahramani, N. M. Rana, S. G. Evans, S. McDougall, W. A. Take and N. Kunz. 2020. "Automated Hazard Mapping of Tailings Storage Facility Failures". in Proceedings of Tailings Mine Waste Conference, 15–18 November, Colorado, USA, 661-669.

Ghahramani N., S. McDougall, A. Mitchell, S. G. Evans, W. A. Take, and V. Cuervo. 2019. "Introducing a Runout Zone Classification for the Analysis of Tailings Flows", in: Proceedings of Tailings and Mine Waste Conference, 17–20 November, Vancouver, Canada, 555–568.

Walsh, A., Take, W.A., McDougall, S. and Evans, S.G. (2019) Physical modelling of tailings dam breach. In Proceedings of Tailings and Mine Waste 2019, Vancouver.

McDougall, S. (2019) An overview of the CanBreach project (Invited Talk). In Proceedings of the Tailings Dam Breach Analysis Workshop at Tailings and Mine Waste 2019, Vancouver.

McDougall, S., Ghahramani, N., Evans, S.G., Take, W.A. and Walsh, A. (2019) CanBreach: an integrated tailings dam breach research and technology development project (Invited Talk). In Proceedings of the Tailings Research Workshop at the ICOLD Annual Meeting/Symposium, Ottawa.

Walsh, A., Take, W.A., McDougall, S. and Evans, S.G. (2019) CanBreach: physical modelling of tailings dam breach (Invited Talk). In Proceedings of the Tailings Research Workshop at the ICOLD Annual Meeting/Symposium, Ottawa.


Published dataset

Adria, D.A.M., Ghahramani, N., Rana, N.M., Martin, V., McDougall, S., Evans, S.G., and Take, W.A. (2023). A database of breach and runout characteristics from historical tailings dam failures. Borealis, V1.

Rana, N.M., Ghahramani, N., Evans, S.G., Small, A., Skermer, N., McDougall, S., Take, W. A. (2022). Supplementary Materials to Global Magnitude-Frequency Statistics of the Failures and Impacts of Large Water-Retention Dams and Mine Tailings Impoundments. Borealis, V2.

Rana, Nahyan M.; Ghahramani, Negar; Evans, Stephen G.; McDougall, Scott; Small, Andy; Take, W. Andy, 2021, "A Comprehensive Global Database of Tailings Flows", https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/NXMXTI, Scholars Portal Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:Dy2b6QrNf1CeZOgEXl961g== [fileUNF]

Walsh, A., McDougall, S., Evans, S.G., Take, A. (2021) Effect of Upstream Dam Geometry on Peak Discharge during Overtopping Breach in Noncohesive Homogenous Embankment Dams; Implications for Tailings Dams (2021-06-07). Scholars Portal Dataverse, p. v1.