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Reservoir slopes Retention of pounded water and tailings Reservoir bottom valley Water tightness at the reservoir basin Remaining catchment basin Catchment of the rainfall water
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the overtopping and breaking processes of tailings dams can be summarized as follows 1 the upstream inflow raises the water level in the reservoir and overflows the dam crest taking away the loose tailings sand from the downstream dam slope and creating small erosion gullies 2 the gullies grow under the continuous erosion of the overtopping …
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A tailings reservoir is a massive geotechnical structure that mining companies use to store tailings throughout the ore extraction and separation process As the greatest geotechnical structure the primary function of the tailings dam is to block tailings
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The commonly adopted technique to store mining tailings consists of creating large reservoirs by constructing earth or tailing dams The eventual failure of a tailings dam is a catastrophic event An enormous energy is released with the movement of large amounts of water and tailings
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The tailings dumps were hydraulically mined reprocessed and stored in an engineered impoundment located 10km south east of Kalgoorlie From the 60 million tonnes of tailings mined 695 000 ounces of gold was recovered by Carbon in Circuit CIC and Carbon in Pulp CIP leach and absorption circuits Kaltails 1998 Normandy 1998
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It is estimated there are at least 3 500 tailings dams around the world But as there are around 30 000 industrial mines the number of tailings dams is likely to be much higher Tailings dams can be huge in size as big as lakes and reach 300 metres high
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Fundão Tailings Dam Samarco Brazil On November 6 2024 an upstream iron ore tailings dam collapsed at the Samarco mine in Brazil The dam collapse started a mudslide that flattened a village killing 17 people injuring 50 and requiring that 600 people be evacuated The upstream tailings dam failure in Samarco Brazil in 2024
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When completed in 2024 copper production will almost double to 400 000 tonne making Los Bronces the fifth largest copper mine in the world Much of the additional water required with the expanded production will come from raising the Las Tórtolas tailings dam located approximately 42 km west of the mine
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South African authorities shut down the Jagersfontein diamond tailings dam in 2024 due to high water levels before allowing it to reopen last year a company official said on Monday a day after the dam burst killing at least one person and injuring 40 Sludge flooded out of the tailings dam on Sunday morning sweeping away houses and cars in Jagersfontein in the Free State province 514
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1 Defra How to comply with your environmental permit additional guidance for mining waste operations 2024 2 Cambridge M 2024 The application of the Mines and Quarries Tips and the Reservoirs Acts Ensuring reservoir safety into the future Hewlett H ed Thomas Telford Ltd 2024 Mike Cambridge Former ARPE
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10 180 000 000 8 850 000 000 Tailings are what is left over after mills separate the metal from the mined rock The processed material tailings comes from the tail end of a mining mill and comprise fine particles mixed with water forming a slurry Mining companies will store this waste in dams or ponds
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1 Introduction On 5 November 2024 around 4 local time UTC−02 00 a tailings dam in the Samarco Mine state of Minas Gerais Brazil collapsed releasing more than 30 million cubic meters of water and mine waste [Wise Uranium Project 2024] The failure of this structure called Fundão dam caused the flooding of the small town of Bento Rodrigues situated less than 5 km from the dam
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The tailings from the bauxite beneficiation process are received in our dams system located in a mined out area to prevent new areas from being disturbed When the reservoirs reach their final capacity tailings discharge is halted and they go through a decommissioning process which involves run off of rainwater and planting of native forest
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Sibanye Stillwater is committed to the safe and environmentally responsible stewardship of our tailings storage facilities Tailings facilities store a mine s primary waste stream Without proper management these facilities can pose a significant risk to the natural and social environment Catastrophic tailings facility failures can devastate the environment and destroy lives and
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Any mining activity results into generation of disintegrated waste materials Tailings Tailings are also known as slimes or leach residue which are the left over materials after the process of separating the valuable fraction of radioactive as U3O8 in Uranium mining
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There are many examples where tailings dams have failed and caused catastrophic disasters such as environmental pollution ecosystem damage and loss of life The causes of mine tailings dam failure are different as each failure is always site specific although common themes always emerge around In higher rainfall climates tailings dams may
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Stava Italy In 1985 tailings dams built to store waste from flourite mining failed due to poor design and extreme water pressure Two hundred thousand cubic meters 186 462 cubic miles
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the invention discloses a kind of method of tailings dam acid mine drainage purified treatment this method is using the leakage water of tailings dam deep layer come acid mine
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Mount Polley Mine Tailing Dam Breach Incident Description Summary A tailings dam failure at the Mount Polley Mine occurred on August 4 2024 resulting in the loss of about 17 million cubic meters of water and 8 million cubic meters of tailings/materials into Polley Lake Hazeltine Creek and Quesnel Lake having significant impact
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The aim of this work is to investigate the causes of the El Descargador tailings dam failure at the mine district Cartagena ndash La Uni oacute n SE Spain in October 1963 Dam stability back analyses have been carried out by applying a geotechnical and geophysical approach The failure occurred in the form of several landslides in five different points along the dam structure The rise in
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An upstream tailings dam owned by the Brazilian mining giant Vale burst near to the town of Brumadinho owned by Brazilian mining giant Vale Vale employees and external experts had previously warned the company that the dam was unstable The collapse destroyed or damaged people s homes and devastated the local environment
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This is the second major tailings dam failure in Africa in two months following the Jagersfontein event on 11 September 2024 in South Africa Interestingly Wikipedia reports that the mine was mothballed in April 2024 The owners offered it for sale in September 2024 indicating that it was permanently closed
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a Sector evaluated in tailings dam b Location of measurement points Taken from Google Earth Figure 2 Monitoring station in tailings dam Own elaboration In the on site evaluation tests in the tailings dam the application of the methodology has made it possible to measure the effect of wind action on the tailings dam in operation and to
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Background Recent major tailings dam failures have led to an industry wide review of the design and management of tailings storage facilities Before the 1960s mine tailings were often disposed directly into ponds lakes rivers or natural topographic depressions or stored in impoundments supported by earthen dams without necessarily applying engineering principles McLeod et al 2024
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The objective of the tailings management component of TSM is to continually work towards minimizing harm through the application of effective governance and best engineering practices in the planning design construction operation and closure of tailings Minimizing harm encompasses both physical and chemical performance and
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The rupture of tailings dams and the leakage of mining by products can result in serious consequences for mining firms surrounding communities and the environment Tailings dams must be monitored carefully and continuously to minimize the risk of costly failures The initiative to implement better methods for monitoring tailings dams has
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Impacts 2024 Aug 4 Mount Polley mine near Likely British Columbia Canada Imperial Metals Corp copper gold tailings dam failure million m 3 of tailings and 10 million m 3 of water tailings flowing into adjacent Polley Lake and through Hazeltine Creek into Quesnel Lake Mitchell Bay 2024 Feb 2
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Vale s Brumadinho 2024 and Mariana 2024 dam disasters have been in the press again recently after the mining giant agreed to pay US$ billion to help repair the environmental and social damages from the Brumadinho dam failure that killed almost 300 people and released around 12 million cubic meters of tailings into the nearby communities
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The unique attributes include Tailings impoundments are among the largest manmade structures with several 9 approaching 1 x 10 tonnes of stored slurried tailings Tailings dams are built on a continuous basis by mine operators and Tailings dams are a cost to the mining process they do not generate a revenue stream akin to a hydroelectric dam
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