mine tailings dam failures: 5 of 6
EDITOR'S COMMENT
We need to talk about tailings
My first thought when reading the news on January 26: "How has this been allowed to happen again?"
15 February 2019
GEOMECHANICS / GROUND CONTROL
Brazil mining authority plans to ban upstream tailings dams
ANM is set to issue an administrative order to either remove upstream tailings dams or convert them
11 February 2019
GEOMECHANICS / GROUND CONTROL
Communities evacuated in Minas Gerais as a precaution
Vale and ArcelorMittal are both evacuating communities near upstream tailings dams in Minas Gerais
08 February 2019
GEOMECHANICS / GROUND CONTROL
Brazil authority cancels Vale licences
Vale's operations have been further curtailed in the wake of the deadly Córrego de Feijão disaster
07 February 2019
GEOMECHANICS / GROUND CONTROL
"The dam collapsed so fast that the sludge engulfed the alarms"
Vale's Fabio Schvartsman gave a press conference after a meeting with Brazil's prosecutor general
01 February 2019
GEOMECHANICS / GROUND CONTROL
Vale to decommission upstream tailings dams
Vale has announced that it will decommission all its tailings dams built using the upstream method
31 January 2019
GEOMECHANICS / GROUND CONTROL
65 dead, hundreds missing after another Vale dam collapse
Vale announced on January 25 a tailings dam near its Feijão iron ore mine had suffered a "breach"
28 January 2019
GEOMECHANICS / GROUND CONTROL
Steps taken towards Samarco settlement
Vale and BHP sign agreement with Brazilian authorities regarding the Samarco tailings dam failure
28 June 2018
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