GEOMECHANICS / GROUND CONTROL

Applying smarter tailings management

Accenture Applied Intelligence’s Liv Carroll makes the case for using new technology for monitoring and managing tailings storage facilities in order to prevent failures that have, particularly in recent years, led to devastating disasters

Liv Carroll
TSFs are typically built to hold waste generated from mining operations – waste that often contains toxic chemicals

TSFs are typically built to hold waste generated from mining operations – waste that often contains toxic chemicals

Recent failures of tailings dams dramatically illustrate the risks that traditional tailings storage facilities (TSFs) represent. Failure of a TSF can result in a ‘flood of mud', causing death, devastation...

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