Abstract
The proper management of tailings largely depends on its consolidation behavior. Extensive works on this sector have been performed and still it plays a significant role in economic and environmental considerations of a tailings management facility. To resolve these issues, consolidation theories had been developed for one, two, and three dimensional aspects with numerical solutions for soft soils like tailings, which behave differently from natural soils. Eventually, large strain consolidation tests have experienced, at its advance level, precise determination of experimental data because non-linear behavior of compressibility and hydraulic conductivity fits to a wide range of functions. This non-unique behavior of tailings is believed to be an aftermath of the combination of flocculation, sedimentation, consolidation, segregation, deposition, freeze-thaw, and desiccation phenomena. A review of significant contributions from the researchers has been complied and composed in this paper to illustrate the growth and revolution of works on tailings consolidation behavior.
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