The Albanese government is under scrutiny for failing to conduct on-site investigations before halting a proposed million-dollar goldmine in Blayney, New South Wales. The decision, influenced by an...
Category - Tailings Management
Multinational mineral producers want to hear from companies that can help improve tailings dewatering and management performance. BHP and Rio Tinto recently invited expressions of interest from...
A mining infrastructure company secured the contract to reopen a resources facility. A subsidiary of CIMIC Group recently won the latest tender at Newcrest Mining’s Cadia Hill Mine, 28km south...
A controversial mining operation is expected to resume work under fresh management. Zero Carbon Investek (ZCI) recently offered between $1 billion and $2B for the Yabulu Nickel Refinery, 25km north...
Emergency responders successfully removed a coal employee who was trapped on an earth-fill embankment. Four workers recently rescued an amphibious excavator operator who became stranded for seven...
Readers will no doubt be aware of the succession of tailings dam failures and catastrophes around the world including Mount Polley in Canada in 2014, Samarco in Brazil in 2015 where 19 people died...
The Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management is directed at Operators[1] and applies to tailings facilities, both existing and to-be-built. It makes clear that extreme consequences to people...
Prosecutors in Brazil’s, State of Minas Gerais have laid charges over the Vale Brumadinho Tailings Dam collapse that claimed the life of approximately 270 people. The prosecutors laid homicide...
The BHP and Vale joint venture operation that resulted in one of the world’s worst environmental disasters in 2015 will recommence operation after receiving approvals for an environmental...
Two people have been hospitalised in a tailings dam failure at a Brazil Gold mine. Brazil’s mining regulator confirmed in a statement that a 15m high dam had ruptured at Mato Grosso state, with...
The Minerals Council of Australia has moved to progressively address tailings management issues following the recent spate of tragic world events in the management of mine tailings. Australia’s...
What’s been the total cost of the 2015 Samarco dam collapse in Brazil? USD $1.5 Billion Dollars so far says CFO Peter Beaven. He added that BHP has provided another USD 2 Billion dollars for...
