A tailings dam is a type of embankment dam, designed to contain mining waste. Melting snow and pounding rain caused the wall of the dam to give way, releasing tons of cyanide into a local stream.

The joint venture (JV) partners in the Karara iron-ore project, in Western Australia, would need to invest a further A$123.6-million into the project to reach nameplate capacity at the project.

Greens WA mining spokesman Robin Chapple has called on the state government to conduct a safety evaluation of all the mine tailings dams in the wake of the Brazil tragedy on January 25.

Investor Mining and Tailings Safety Initiative has 77 member firms; 126 companies yet to commit to best practice; Church pensions group may vote against chairs at AGMs ...

Vale (NYSE:VALE) said Saturday it is conducting additional checks on one of its tailings dams in Brazil after a routine inspection identified surface cracks, but so far has found the structure ...

The disaster near the small town of Brumadinho in southeastern Brazil occurred shortly after midday on 25 January 2019. At a nearby iron ore mine, the tailings dam—a storage area for the sludgy ...

50 million litres of toxic mine waste recently flooded into Zambia’s Kafue River after the dam storing the mine waste collapsed. Mine specialists set out the issues.

The collapse of the Brumadinho dam in 2019 remains one of the most tragic and devastating engineering failures in recent history. The rupture, which resulted in significant loss of life and ...

Newmont has ceased gold production at WA’s Telfer mine after spotting ‘cracking and seepage’ on tailings dam wall. Newmont has halted gold production at the remote Telfer WA gold mine after ...

Nearly a third of the world's mine tailings are stored within or near protected conservation areas, posing risks to some of the earth's most precious species and landscapes. A recent study by ...

The Talabre dam processes mining waste from Codelco's Ministro Hales, Chuquicamata and Radomiro Tomic divisions. Prior to the complaint, the Superintendency of the Environment (SMA), had last ...

A gold mine in WA's remote Pilbara has been forced to suspend its processing operations, after cracking was detected at a tailings dam on site. "Cracking and seepage" was discovered at a Telfer ...