Tag: Tailings
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Critics argue that proposed TSF in PNG could wipe out entire villages
Highlights A proposed tailings storage facility in PNG would hold 9.6bn cubic metres of water – twice the size f Sydney Harbour EIS has stated that while the probability of a failure is very unlikely, the extreme consequences of complete...
‘Time has come for miners to make statements about tailings dams’
Highlights “The clock’s very much ticking on implementation and we’ve got an ambitious timeline,” ICMM director, Aidan Davy told the PDAC 2021 virtual forum in Canada ‘We’ includes the ICMM’s 28 member companies – Davy knows the time has come...
Insurance for tailings dams and impoundments
Highlights Until recently, insurance capacity was generally available for mining operations with tailings storage facilities However, following the devastating Brumadinho failure which triggered a regulatory and industry-wide safety review of tailings dams, the insurance landscape has changed very rapidly Download...
Brumadinho TSF failure could have been predicted with tech
Highlights According to a recent study by researchers at the University of Nottingham and Durham University, the dam collapse at Vale’s (NYSE: VALE) Córrego do Feijão mining complex in Brazil, which killed almost 300 people two years ago, could have been...
New independent institution to oversee the implementation of GISTM
Highlights Investors have asked all mining companies to confirm support for the implementation of the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management The UNEP, PRI, Co-Convenors of the Global Tailings Review, the Church of England Pensions Board and the Council on...