Abstract: The deposited beach gradient is the important parameter of tailings pond design and operation process.At present,there is no proper method to calculate the deposited beach gradient of new tailings pond. So,a new calculation method based on many factors is introduced so as to compute the deposited beach gradient in this paper. Some relative experimental results show that the performance of the method is good and the method is a reasonable and reliable thinking to deal with calculating the deposited beach gradient.

Key words: Tailings, Deposited beach gradient, Calculation method