@conference {53779,
	title = {Suncor pond 5 coke cap - The story of its conception testing and advance to full-scale construction},
	year = {2011},
	note = {IN: Tailings and Mine Waste {\textquoteright}10.  Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Tailings and Mine Waste October 17-20, 2010. Vail, Colorado.  CRC Press. London, UK.  pp. 341-346.},
	month = {10/2010},
	pages = {5 pages },
	publisher = {CRC Press London },
	organization = {CRC Press London },
	address = {London, UK },
	abstract = {The Pond 5 Tailings Impoundment at the Suncor Energy Oil Sands Mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, was turned over to the mine{\textquoteright}s reclamation department in 2009 for closure. At the beginning of 2010, construction of a pond-wide coke cap, part of the proposed final cover, was begun. In the two years preceding construction of the pond-wide coke cap, the authors undertook extensive laboratory and field trials of a prototype coke cap.
This paper describes the theoretical and practical work done to formulate a viable and safe coke cap{\textemdash}in effect the cap that is now under construction across almost the entire pond. We describe field testing to characterize the tailings; laboratory testing undertaken to characterize the response of the tailings to planned construction procedure; and two prototype covers constructed in the winters of 2008 and early 2009 to test and confirm theoretical analyses and designs.
},
	keywords = {coke, field trials, geotechnical properties, Suncor, tailings},
	url = {http://www.infomine.com/library/publications/docs/Wells2010.pdf},
	author = {Wells, Patrick S. and Caldwell, Jean and Fournier, Joseph}
}
