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Up-to-date News and Information on Tailings Dams and Engineered TSF


NEWSMAKERS: * BHP * Brumadinho * ExcelPlas * First Quantum * Flottweg * FLSmidth * Freeport-McMoRan * HR Wallingford * Geo-X * GHD * Golder Associates * PanAust * PDAC * Position Partners * Ramjack * RioTinto * Swift GeoSpatial * Teck * TenCate * TNA * TSF * Worldsensing * Vale

INDUSTRY NEWS

Vale Begins $2.3 billion Filtered Tailings & Dry Stacking Journey with First Plant Start Up at Vargem Grande Complex
https://im-mining.com/2021/03/17/vale-begins-2-3-billion-filtered-tailings-dry-stacking-journey-first-plant-start-vargem-grande-complex/
https://www.miningmagazine.com/geomechanics-ground-control/news/1406682/vale-starts-tailings-filtration-plant-at-vargem-grande

Entire Villages Would be Wiped Out if Natural Disaster Hit Proposed Tailings dam on PNG PanAust Mine, Critics Say
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/14/entire-villages-would-be-wiped-out-if-natural-disaster-hit-dam-on-png-mine-critics-say

Modeling the Brumadinho Tailings Dam Failure – Hosted by Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gDmCg12nQc

Geo-X Complete Massive 1 Million m2 HDPE Lined Gamsberg Zinc Tailings Storage Facility (TSF) Designed by Knight Piesold
https://www.knightpiesold.com/en/projects/gamsberg-zinc-mine/

Endeavour Mining MINE TAILINGS DISCLOSURE TABLE (Declassified)
https://s21.q4cdn.com/954147562/files/doc_downloads/2021/02/210210_Mine-Tailings-Disclosure-Table_vf-(1).pdf

HR Wallingford Publishes Animation Modelling the Brumadinho Tailings Dam Failure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9k0-gX1P4Q

‘Clock Ticking’ on Tailings Dams, PDAC hears
https://www.mining-journal.com/events-coverage/news/1406450/clock-ticking-on-tailings-dams-pdac-hears

Transparency, Disclosure and ‘Bat-Phone’ Improving Tailings Dam Safety
https://www.mining-journal.com/innovation/news/1405922/transparency-disclosure-and-bat-phone-improving-tailings-dam-safety

TAILINGS DAM SURVEILLANCE

New Tailings Dam Surveillance Technology
https://www.positionpartners.com.au/position-partners/evolution-mining/

Worldsensing Adds Deformation Monitoring to IoT Tool
https://www.miningmagazine.com/geomechanics-ground-control/news/1405209/worldsensing-adds-deformation-monitoring-to-iot-tool

RAMJACK Tailings Dam Monitoring System Consists of Unique Arrays of Piezometers, Extensometers and Inclinometers
https://ramjacktech.com/our-expertise/monitor/tailings-dam-monitoring/

TAILINGS DEWATERING

Flottweg Tailings Decanter Centrifuge for Tailings Dewatering
https://www.flottweg.com/applications/industrial-waste-mineral-oils/tailings/

TAILINGS REMEDIATION

Bioleaching of Uranium Tailings as Secondary Sources for Rare Earth Elements Production
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/3/302/pdf

Mercury Mine Tailings Amended with Biochar
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969720374908?via=ihub

Systematic Characterization of Historical Tailings for Possible Remediation and Recovery of Critical Metals and Minerals
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0375674221000558

Crop Uptake of Heavy Metals in Response to the Environment and Agronomic Practices on Land Near Copper Mine Tailings
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10653-021-00849-7

Use of Plants and Crops to Remediate Magnesite Mine Tailings (Phytoremediation)
https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/20210086961

Growth Responses and Accumulation Characteristics of Three Ornamental Plants to Tin Contamination in Soil
https://search.proquest.com/openview/39d596db66d17c8da938e722cbac646f/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=2032441

Flocculation Settling Characteristics of Ultra-Fine Iron Tailings with Rich Gypsum
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ace/2021/6671704/

Effective Utilization of Extracted Titanium Tailings to Prepare High Performance Glass-Ceramics
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272884221007173

Comprehensive Benefit Evaluation of Cemented Paste Backfill of Tailings in the Mining Industry
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ace/2021/6646671/

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

Impacts of Exposure to Mine Tailings on Zooplankton Hatching from a Resting Egg Bank
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10452-021-09844-7

High Throughput Screening of Native Species for Tailings Eco-Restoration Using Novel Computer Visualization for Plant Phenotyping
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969721015588

Tailings Dust Characterization and Impacts on Surface Water Chemistry at an Abandoned Zu-Pb-Cu-Au-Ag Deposit
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0883292721000597

Seismic Stability of Coal Tailings Dams with Spatially Variable and Liquefiable Coal Tailings
https://pennstate.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/seismic-stability-of-coal-tailings-dams-with-spatially-variable-a

Formation and Evolution Characteristics of Dam Breach and Tailings Flow From Tailings Dam Failure
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-021-04649-1

NEW WEBINARS

Webinar – Geospatial Strategies for Tailings Storage Facility (TSF) Management
https://www.esri.com/videos/watch?videoid=TGZnWodd4rA&title=geospatial-strategies-for-tailings-storage-facility-tsf-management

Webinar – Friday, April 9, 2021  Mr. William E. (Bill) Cobb Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer – Freeport-McMoRan Americas
“Meeting Escalating Stakeholder Expectations of the Mining Sector”
https://www.eme.psu.edu/calendar/shoemaker-lecture

“Soft Site Impoundment Closures for Mining Using Geosynthetics” by Chris Lawson, April 20, 2021
https://www.acigs.org/civicrm/?page=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/event/info&reset=1&id=23

Webinar: The Latest Technologies for Managing Risks in Mines with Q&A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUnBSALzCSY&t=6s

NEW JOBS

First Quantum Minerals Seeking Group Engineer, Tailings Storage Facilities and Water Dams
https://za.linkedin.com/jobs/view/group-engineer-tailings-storage-facilities-and-water-dams-at-first-quantum-minerals-2441332630?refId=b520f1dd-09e1-4936-ad5f-f602bb107db6

Newcrest Seeking Superintendent- Tailings Impoundment Construction in Canada
http://careers.newcrest.com.au/caw/en/job/979844/superintendent-tailings-impoundment-construction

GHD Seeking Geotechnical Engineers – Tailings & Mine Waste
https://au.linkedin.com/jobs/view/geotechnical-engineers-tailings-mine-waste-at-ghd-2446399930

Knight Piesold Seeking Tailings Engineer / Dams Engineer for Perth, Western Australia, Australia
https://au.linkedin.com/jobs/view/tailings-engineer-dams-engineer-at-knight-piesold-2463735442

Teck Seeking Tailings Business Improvement Engineer
https://jobs.teck.com/job/Vancouver-May-2021-Tailings-Business-Improvement-Co-op-BC/721649500/?locale=en_US

FREE LITERATURE TO DOWNLOAD

Design of Coarse Tailings and Dry Ash Disposal Facilities
https://papers.acg.uwa.edu.au/d/1910_04_Copeland/04_Copeland.pdf

Fifty-Seven Major Tailings Disasters Since 2000
Using tailings insights to support safer TSF management
TSFs are some of the world’s biggest engineering structures, and one of the greatest risks for mine owners, and the communities and environments in which they operate, is the far-reaching damage that occurs if they fail.
February marked the two-year anniversary of one of the most significant tailings dam failures in history – the Córrego do Feijão operation in Brumadinho, Brazil which took 270 people’s lives.
The Brumadinho tailings disaster triggered an unprecedented overhaul of global safety regulations leading to the introduction, in mid-2020, of the world’s first global safety standards for tailings management.
Resources companies are now required to be more transparent in their disclosure of tailings risk and insurers have been quick to line-up behind the new standards making insurance cover difficult to secure unless miners can demonstrate standards compliance.
https://www.tailingsnews.com.au/


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