Over the past 20 years there has been a series of tailings storage facility (TSF) failures. The devastating failure of Brazil’s Brumadinho Tailings Storage Facility (TSF) in January 2019, which took 270 people’s lives, was the tipping point for the industry.
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What was the timeline of events?
Just two days after the tragic event in Brazil, a group of investors co-led by the Church of England Pensions Board and the Swedish Council of Ethics of the AP Funds announced the Investor Mining and Tailings Safety Initiative.
This Initiative brought about several interventions:
- The first was a call for a new independent, publicly accessible international standard for tailings dams based upon the consequences of failure. In response to their call, The Global Tailings Review (GTR) was announced and co-convened by the International Council of Mining and Metals (ICMM), the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
- The second intervention saw the request of detailed disclosure on TSFs from the CEOs and Board Chairs of 726 extractive companies on 17th April 2019. The disclosure was requested to be signed off by the CEO or Board Chair and published on the company website by 7th June 2019.
Summits
During this time, four high level investor round tables took place in London between March and June 2019. This took input from locally affected communities. The goal was to enable better understanding of the scale of social and financial risks associated with TSF failures, help identify the actions required to make best practices on TSF management, and define the roles of investors, companies and other stakeholders in reducing the safety risks associated with TSFs.
In January 2020, one year on from the disaster, the Global Tailings Summit was held in London, where Professor Elaine Baker of GRID-Arendal presented the Global Tailings Portal, with over 1,900 TSFs set live on the database. These disclosures included 45 of the top 50 mining companies which resulted in information about thousands of individual tailings dams
HECHOS:
- A partir de abril de 2020, 45 de las 50 principales empresas mineras hicieron divulgaciones que dieron lugar a información sobre miles de presas de relaves/instalaciones individuales que se hicieron públicas en los sitios web de las empresas
- Más del 86% de la industria minera por capitalización capitalización bursátil han respondido
- All 23 publicly owned member companies of the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) responded, fully disclosing tailings dams/facilities
18-months on from the disaster, the GTR successfully launched the new global standard for the safe management of mine tailings. The industry is responding to the launch of the GTS by reviewing their designs, procedures and safety processes to ensure that they are meeting the standard.
¿Qué es la norma mundial sobre gestión de residuos?
¿Qué es la norma mundial sobre gestión de residuos?
The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), UNEP, and PRI co-convened a Global Tailings Review (GTR). They aimed to establish an international standard. On August 5, 2020, they launched the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management. This standard seeks to achieve zero harm to people and the environment. It uses an integrated approach to tailings management. The Standard aims to prevent catastrophic failures. It also seeks to enhance the safety of tailings facilities worldwide. It embodies a step-change in terms of transparency, accountability and safeguarding the rights of project affected people.
The historic agreement which includes six topic areas, 15 principles and 77 auditable requirements, covers the entire tailings storage facility (TSF) lifecycle – from site selection, design and construction, management and monitoring, through to closure and post-closure.
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We offer a comprehensive and functionally rich solution. It combines regulatory (Compliance Management Software), mining waste management, stakeholder engagement, environmental monitoring, and environmental management system (EMS) tools to assist with tailings management:
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- Cargar y referenciar la documentación clave
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- Delegación de acciones y tareas para la recogida de datos con recordatorios
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- Convierta sus compromisos en resultados prácticos
- Prevea, planifique y siga las actividades de sus sitios utilizando los datos meteorológicos de IBM
- Crear plantillas de informes corporativos y satisfacer las solicitudes de suministro de datos de grupos industriales como el ICMM, el Global Tailings Portal, el PRI y el PNUMA
- Capacidad de integración con sistemas de terceros o portales públicos como el Global Tailings Portal
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