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...
Tag - tailings dam
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 International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) today launched two new resources to support continual improvement in the safe and transparent management of tailings facilities: Conformance...
Australian based mining waste management technology provider Phibion, announced today that it has welcomed an investment by RCF Jolimont Mining Innovation Fund II-A L.P. (RCF Jolimont II) to...
Geopraevent developed SLYX Slow Movement Analysis tailored for mining applications: the algorithm is integrated into IDS GeoRadar’s IBIS Guardian software and detects slow movements on tailing dams...
Some of the world’s biggest engineering structures are Tailings Storage Facilities (TSFs) and one of the greatest risks for mine owners, and the communities and environments in which they operate is...
Waste rock wrongly classified as harmless and a leaking dam could have a devastating impact on the local environment and community near the McArthur River Mine. Up to 22 sacred Indigenous sites and...
Responding to challenges involved in meeting environmental obligations for tailings storage, a global industry leader in fine particle management, Reynolds Soil Technologies (RST), has developed a...
Mining giants Vale and BHP are set to restart the operation of the Samarco iron ore facilities more than five years after the environmental tragedy that saw 43.7 million cubic metres of mine tailings...
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...
