While tailings dams are meant to last for ever, extreme weather events are making many unstable – with devastating consequences for nature and humans ...

Mining is essential to modern lifestyles. Copper, iron and other mined products are vital to the products many people take for granted, like electronic devices. Being able to buy these goods quite ...

The standard contains 15 principles and 77 specific, auditable requirements for operators to adhere to. Its aims include to "lift the performance bar for designing, constructing, operating, ...

The two parties have signed a memorandum of understanding to investigate options for improving dam monitoring and reporting, including potential use of the smart monitoring IoT and a satellite ...

Global mining company MMG has long been seeking to build a third tailings storage dam at its mine on the Tasmanian west coast, in the face of strong opposition from environmentalists. It's now put ...

Residents affected by a highly toxic tailings dam spill in Zambia’s Copperbelt have launched legal action against the Chinese ...

CABILDO, Chile (Reuters) - As heavy rains continue to pummel Chile, cutting off areas of the country and damaging thousands of homes, one community is dealing with a tailings dam rupture that has sent ...

Leaders in Kasese District are raising alarm over the continued erosion of copper and cobalt tailings into River Nyamwamba, ...

SANTIAGO, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Chile's Antofagasta Minerals, a London-listed copper miner, said on Thursday it completed construction of a $600 million tailings dam at its Los Pelambres copper mine, ...

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