The release of a Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management will help support the safe management of tailings facilities around the world. Australian companies actively contributed to the...
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The International Council on Mining and Minerals and the United Nations Environment Program today has launched global standards for the safe management of mine tailings. The historic agreement to lay...
Environmental organisation GRID-Arendal with support from the UN Environment Program has launched the world’s first publicly accessible global database of mine tailings storage...
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...
A panel of experts hired by Vale has concluded that the Brumadinho tailings dam broke down when the tailings suffered a sudden and rapid loss of strength, a process known as “static...
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...
Global miner BHP Group said today that it has set up a tailings taskforce to further improve the focus on internal dam management and boost safety following Vale’s Brumadinho dam disaster in...
Satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais to explore IoT technology in the monitoring of tailings dams. Inmarsat...
Slope stability issues in a tailings dam wall at Vale’s Brazilian Gongo Soco mine have triggered a range of preparedness measures in anticipation of another dam wall failure. Vale reported that...
Newcrest has released a long-awaited technical report into the Cadia mine tailings dam failure in March 2018. Newcrest appointed an Independent Technical Review Board (ITRB)to investigate the...
