Tailings dams are critical components of mining operations ... research has focused on understanding the causes of tailings dam failures, improving management practices, and developing strategies ...

An international institute that seeks to improve the safety of reservoirs that store toxic waste from mining known as tailings kicked off Tuesday, six years after the collapse of a dam owned by ...

Genome British Columbia is funding two new research projects that aim to tackle two significant mining challenges: The environmental impacts of mine tailings and the shortage in world copper. Genome ...

The tailings dam would extend gold mining in the province. The Ministry of Environment has already given the environmental permission for the construction of the second tailings dam and the company ...

The Global Tailings Management Institute (GTMI), an organisation "dedicated to improving the safety of mine tailings facilities worldwide", was launched in Johannesburg, South Africa today (January 21 ...

in 2020 – a year after the catastrophic dam collapse at Brazil’s Corrego de Feijao mine in Brumadinho, which Global Tailings Review chairperson and a former International Union for ...

A newly released assessment of global tailings management facilities (TMFs) data paints a jarring picture showing that relative to global mine production, there has been no improvement in the rate of ...