#🎙️93 Dr Steven Emerman – When Engineering Meets Reality: The Curraghinalt Mine Waste Facility 03/09/26

Dr Steven Emerman returns to the podcast to examine the proposed Curraghinalt Mine Waste Facility and the assumptions on which its long-term safety depends. Drawing on his recent investigation of filtered-tailings facilities in Indonesia including work undertaken by an engineering consultancy whom we will refer to as Consultancy A who also designed the proposed Curraghinalt dry-stack facility we discuss what happens when engineering calculations meet conditions on the ground. We explore water, drainage, compaction, foundations, monitoring, failure scenarios and restoration . Link to Steven’s report: https://dontmineus.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/filtered_tailings_in_indonesia.pdf Filtered Tailings in Indonesia The Catastrophic Failure of a DisruptiveTechnology Technical Report: Steven H. Emerman, PhD, Malach Consulting Summary, Analysis, and Recommendations: Ellen Moore, Jan Morrill, Vuyisile Ncube,and Paulina Personius, and Arianto Sangadji On behalf of Earthworks March, 2026 Link to #23 Dr. Emermans earlier podcast  - The Science of Failure: Truth, Risk, and Responsibility   Failure of Filtered Tailings Mine  Waste Facility  https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/repeated-failures-expose-gaps-in-indonesias-nickel-waste-management/ Dry stack facility- undergoing liquefaction:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCfMnlWmEbo   SAVE OUR SPERRINS ( Social Media)  https://linktr.ee/saveoursperrins As always, this podcast is intended to help people understand what happened at the Inquiry by bringing together the week's evidence in plain English. If you find these updates useful, please consider joining the Sperrins community  campaign newsletter. https://dontmineus.com/newsletter/