Figure 1A colour orthophoto captured by WorldView-2 shows the Jagersfontein Tailings Dam after its collapse. Since its release, the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM) has been ...

The use of dam surveillance to reduce the risk of tailings dam failure is the topic of an upcoming presentation at Tailings 2018, to be held July 11-13 in Santiago, Chile. The presentation will look ...

Six months after the red mud tragedy in Hungary, tailings dams in Central and Eastern Europe continue to be a major cause for concern in the region. We visit Medet, the largest tailings dam in the ...

The tailings dam at a mine near Brits, North West, was hiding in plain sight, unregistered and showing signs of the trouble to come.

On Thursday, 13 August, the wall of a dam belonging to Samancor Dikwena Tailings Facility collapsed, unleashing mining sludge across the R566 towards the nearby Eland Mine owned by Northam Platinum ...

Thousands of Brazilians braced Monday for the possible collapse of another tailings dam owned by mining giant Vale that threatens to spew millions of tons of toxic sludge over towns, rivers and forest ...

In the wake of the disastrous Jagersfontein tailings dam failure that killed at least one person, destroyed at least 164 homes and displaced almost 400 residents, all eyes have turned to South Africa ...

A fourth tailings dam was approved in June, in a decision being challenged in the Victorian civil and administrative tribunal Administrators of the Ballarat goldmine have said the proposed new ...

LONDON (Reuters) - (The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters) The collapse of Vale's Brumadinho iron ore tailings dam in Brazil was both shocking and devastating in ...

The reopening of an old copper and zinc mine in far East Gippsland is a step closer after the Victorian Government gave the go ahead for the development of a controversial tailing dam yesterday.