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BREAKING NEWS

Protests Over Newcrest’s Plans for Deep Sea Tailings Storage in Papua New Guinea
https://nowafigolpudstp.org/news/latest-news-post/human-rights-complaint-filed

Official Complaint Against Newcrest Mining Limited and Harmony Gold (Australia) Pty Ltd
https://www.jubileeaustralia.org/storage/app/media/Submissions/NCP%20complaint%20-%20Wafi-Golpu%20-%20Final.pdf

Rio Tinto Whitepaper:  Risk and Conformance-based Tailings Management: Two-sides of the Same Coin
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jiri-Herza/publication/365360275_Risk_and_conformance-
based_tailings_management_Two-sides_of_the_same_coin/links/6371cfe654eb5f547ccec6fe/Risk-and-conformance-based-tailings-management-Two-sides-of-the-same-coin.pdf

Sotrafa Geosynthetics Case Study Tailings Dam in Central America [PDF]
https://cloud.excelplas.com/s/irIAr51gmQQgZC6

INDUSTRY NEWS

Tailings Critical Liability in Mining – Consultancy (SRK & BHP OLYMPIC DAM)
https://www.miningweekly.com/article/tailings-a-critical-liability-in-mining-consultancy-2022-11-25/rep_id:3650

Rates and Causes of Tailings Dam Failures by Tim Stark
Sometimes, a geomembrane on the upstream face of the dam is installed to reduce dam saturation and seepage
https://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/ace/2022/7895880.pdf

HATCH Learnings from Dry Stacking Fine Grained Nickel Residue in the Tropics [PDF]
https://cloud.excelplas.com/s/oiG63Lqr5qiXDdM

Serious Danger: Emergency Plan in the Event of a Possible Collapse of the El Mauro dam was prepared with False Information Provided by Minera Los Pelambres
https://londonminingnetwork.org/2022/11/serious-danger-emergency-plan-in-the-event-of-a-possible-collapse-of-the-el-
mauro-dam-was-prepared-with-false-information-provided-by-minera-los-pelambres/

Influence of Acidity on Closure Costs of Mine Tailings Dams
https://www.miningreview.com/partners/influence-of-acidity-on-closure-costs-of-mine-tailings-dams/

The Future of Tailings: Embracing New Technologies and Building on the Old
https://www.miningmagazine.com/partners/partner-content/1442953/the-future-of-tailings-embracing-new-technologies-and-building-on-the-old

Effects of Constructing Farmland with Large Amounts of Iron Tailings as Soil Reconstruction Materials on Soil Properties and Crop Growth
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24599-3

New Implements to Complement Tailings Testing Portfolio
https://www.miningweekly.com/article/new-implements-to-complement-tailings-testing-portfolio-2022-11-25

Static Liquefaction Causes the Flow Failure of a Tailings Dam [PDF]
https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/minerals/minerals-12-01488/article_deploy/minerals-12-01488.pdf?version=1669211115

Annual Pulses of Copper-Enriched Sediment in a North American River Downstream of a Large Lake Following the Catastrophic Failure of a Mine Tailings Storage Facility
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722060260?via%3Dihub

Safety of Tailings Dams
https://www.wise-uranium.org/mdas.html

Poisonous Coverup – The Widespread Failure of the Power Industry to Clean Up Coal Ash Dumps
https://environmentalintegrity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Poisonous-Coverup-11.03.22.pdf

Metal-Rich Mine-Tailing Spills in Brazil and the Consequences for the Surrounding Water Bodies
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11270-022-05925-x

Experimental Study on Failure Model of Tailing Dam Overtopping under Heavy Rainfall
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/lithosphere/article/2022/Special%2010/5922501/618819/Experimental-Study-on-Failure-Model-of-Tailing-Dam

The Use of Lightweight Penetrometer PANDA for the Compaction Control of Classified Sand Tailings Dams
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/12/11/1467/pdf?version=1669274313

Key Elements of Tailings Dam Safety
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jiri-
Herza/publication/365211342_Key_elements_of_tailings_dam_safety_case/links/636b3ed42f4bca7fd0452390/Key-elements-of-tailings-dam-safety-case.pdf

Monitoring Horizontal and Vertical Components of SAMARCO Mine Dikes Deformations by DInSAR-SBAS Using TerraSAR-X and Sentinel-1 Data
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-6489/2/4/40/pdf?version=1668126358

Geotechnical Study for In-pit Coal Refuse Tailing Cells
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Russell-Sheets/publication/364946669_GEOTECHNICAL_STUDY_FOR_IN-
PIT_COAL_REFUSE_TAILING_CELLS/links/635fd9e596e83c26eb6e56c5/GEOTECHNICAL-STUDY-FOR-IN-PIT-COAL-REFUSE-TAILING-CELLS.pdf

NEW JOBS

SLR Consulting Seeking Associate Geotechnical / Mine Waste Engineer (Tailings) – Brisbane
https://fs-1123.my.salesforce-sites.com/careers/fRecruit__ApplyJob?vacancyNo=VN2252

SLR Consulting Seeking Principal Geotechnical / Mine Waste Engineer – Brisbane
https://fs-1123.my.salesforce-sites.com/careers/fRecruit__ApplyJob?vacancyNo=VN2243

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