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BREAKING NEWS

Bolivian Authorities Investigate Tailings Pond Collapse 
https://www.mining.com/bolivian-authorities-investigate-tailings-pond-collapse-near-potosi/

Environmentalists Alarmed by Bid to Raise Wall Height of Tailings Dam at N.S. Gold Mine
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/touquoy-gold-mine-tailings-raise-application-1.6543712

Critics Worry More Tailings Pond Waste at Gold Mine Could Mean Disaster for Nova Scotia
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/07/29/news/critics-worry-more-tailings-pond-waste-gold-mine-NS

Brazil’s Vale Advances Tailings Dam Closure Program
https://www.bnamericas.com/en/news/brazils-vale-advances-tailings-dam-closure-program

INDUSTRY NEWS

Two New Reports Outline the Catastrophic Consequences of a Tailings Dam Failure
https://conservationnw.org/news-updates/british-columbias-copper-mountain-mine-is-a-dire-threat-to-washington-waters-
and-communities/

The Use of the Silva-Lambe-Marr Method for Estimating the Annual Probability of Failure of the Tailings Dams at the Copper Mountain Mine, British Columbia, Canada [PDF]
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5760488227d4bd87de902e88/t/62cf24e6364b687912fc2ba5/1657742571180/Copper_
Mountain_Report_Emerman.pdf

Copper Mountain Mine Tailings Dam Breach Assessment [PDF]
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5760488227d4bd87de902e88/t/62e9a3836e6ec602d2500b0b/1659478927483/Copper
MountainFinalReport_Lynker_20220802.pdf

Industry Profile – Global Tailings Consultant – Expert in Responsible Mine Tailings Management
https://cloud.excelplas.com/s/mhxdWm6sT29sdEb

Teck Announces Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
https://www.teck.com/media/Q2-2022-Conference-Call-Presentation.pdf

Ausenco Expert Luis Paredes Offering Expertise on Tailings Facilities in Chile
https://ausenco.com/services/sustainability/geotechnical-tailings-supervision-support-services/

ANCOLD Tailings Dam Operators Forum 2022 – Less than 3 Weeks to Go
https://www.cgg.com/resources/media-events/tradeshow/ancold-tailings-dam-operators-forum-2022

LATEST RESEARCH

Golder/WSP Discuss Limitations of Classic Constitutive Soil Models and Their Suitability to Represent Tailings Behaviour
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-12851-6_13

Global Magnitude-Frequency Statistics of the Failures and Impacts of Large Mine Tailings Impoundments
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825222002288

Assessing Water Quality of Paraopeba River (Minas Gerais, Brazil) after the Rupture of Tailings Dam
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13762-022-04430-2

Assessing the Long-Term Erosional Stability of Valley Fill Designs
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004896972204791X

Evapotranspiration Covers at Uranium Mill Tailings Sites
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/13/8180/pdf?version=1656993681

Numerical Analysis of Stability and Serviceability of Creeping Tailings Heaps
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-12851-6_48

A Novel Method for Predicting the Geochemical Composition of Tailings with Laboratory Field and Hyperspectral Airborne Data
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22797254.2022.2104173

Recycling of Phosphate Tailings to Prepare a High Value-Added Magnesium Oxysulfate Cement
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652622029298

Potential of Alkaline Gold Mine Tailings to Treat and Prevent Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) Formation [PDF]
https://web.archive.org/web/20220527030103id_/https:/iicbe.org/upload/9172C0322265.pdf

The Acute Toxicity of Bitumen-influenced Groundwaters from Oil Sands Tailings to Aquatic Organisms
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972204774X

Study on Tailings Cementation by Microbial Induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35913918/

Subsoil and Surface Soil Constraints of Mined Land and Tailings
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-00317-2_7

Mine Tailings-Based Geopolymers
https://www.essoar.org/pdfjs/10.1002/essoar.10512048.1

Prediction of the Mechanical Performance of Cemented Tailings Backfill Using Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity Measurement [PDF]
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/12/8/986/pdf?version=1659519741

NEW JOBS

Harmony Gold Seeking Project Manager for Tailings Storage Facilities
https://www.seek.com.au/job/57953588?type=standout

GHD Seeking Technical Director – Dams and Tailings (Salary Range $210k ~ $228k)
https://www.careerone.com.au/jobview/technical-director-dams-and-tailings/54570179-13be-11ed-81cd-02b662f67062

Hatch Seeking Senior Tailings Engineer
https://jobs.hatch.com/job/Mississauga-Senior-Tailings-Engineer-ON/919500800/

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