• Mechanisms of progressive failure in brittle argillaceous materials: the failure of Aznalcóllar dam 

      Gens Solé, Antonio (2011)
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      This document presents a brief summary of the failure of Azna1cóllar dam, a catastrophic slide that caused one of the worst environmental disasters in Spain. The account inc1udes a description of the failure and of the ...
    • Reconstructing the Aznalcóllar mine accident 20 year later: numerical modelling of the flood 

      Sanz Ramos, Marcos; Bladé i Castellet, Ernest; Dolz Ripollès, Josep (CRC Press, 2020)
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      The Aznalcóllar mine-pond break is the most catastrophic mining accident regis-tered in the Iberian Peninsula (April 1998), and caused a tailings spill that affected around 45 km of the Agrio and Guadiamar Rivers. The flood ...
    • Revisiting the hydraulics of the Aznalcóllar mine disaster 

      Sanz Ramos, Marcos; Bladé i Castellet, Ernest; Dolz Ripollès, Josep; Sánchez Juny, Martí (2022-06)
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      The Aznalcóllar tailings pond failure (1998) is regarded as one of the severe ecological mine disasters ever reported. The spill of the mine tailings affected more than 60 km of the Agrio and Guadiamar rivers and caused ...