Download or read book Tailings Dam Management for the Twenty First Century written by Franco Oboni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-13 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive approach to address the need to improve the design of tailings dams, their management and the regulation of tailings management facilities to reduce, and eventually eliminate, the risk of such facilities failing. The scope of the challenge is well documented in the report by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and GRID Arendal entitled “Mine Tailings Storage: Safety Is No Accident,” which was released in October 2017. The report recommends that “Regulators, industry and communities should adopt a shared, zero-failure objective to tailings storage facilities...” and identifies several areas where further improvements are required. In this context, the application of cutting-edge risk-assessment methodologies and risk-management practices can contribute to a significant reduction and eventual elimination of dam failures through Risk Informed Decision Making. As such, the book focuses on identifying and describing the risk-assessment approaches and risk-management practices that need to be implemented in order to develop a way forward to achieve socially acceptable levels of tailings dam risk.
Download or read book Tailings Dam Incidents written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tailings Dams written by and published by United Nations Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tailings are the residue of the milling process for extracting metals for ore. They are mostly commonly dumped in surface impoundments (tailing dams), the embankments of which are usually earthfilled dams. In spite of a number of guidelines to their design and construction there are still major failings each year. This book gathers together 221 case records of incidents in attempt to investigate the causes of failure. The main causes were found to be lack of control of water balance, lack of control of construction, lack of understanding of the feature that control safe operation
Download or read book Environmental and Safety Incidents Concerning Tailings Dams at Mines written by Mining Journal Research Services and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews the occurence of reported failures and other similar incidents involving mine tailings dams in major mining regions since 1980.
Download or read book Tailings Dam Spills at Mount Polley and Mariana written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fund o Tailings Dam Failure in Southeastern Brazil written by Mark M. Rich and published by Mark Rich. This book was released on 2024-07-28 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the concise article, Fundão Tailings Dam Failure in Southeastern Brazil: Ecological Strike to Rio Doce Basin, the author posits that the 2015 Fundão Dam disaster was a calculated act executed by international bankers and their Brazilian government allies. The dam’s collapse unleashed 15.8 billion gallons of toxic sludge into the Rio Doce, wreaking havoc on the environment and local communities. The article suggests this catastrophe, similar to the 2014 Mount Polley mine breach in British Columbia, was a premeditated ecological assault aimed at displacing and harming indigenous populations. The extensive damage included contamination of drinking water with mercury and arsenic, posing severe long-term health risks and ecological destruction. Drawing parallels between the Fundão and Mount Polley disasters, the article contends that both incidents were orchestrated by placing tailings ponds in unstable locations and continually raising dam walls to handle more waste. The narrative highlights political and corporate collusion, with mining companies donating significantly to political parties and benefiting from weakened regulatory oversight. The piece implicates major financial entities like Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and BlackRock in funding these ecological weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). The author claims that these institutions, under the control of elites like the Rothschilds and George Soros, are engaged in a global strategy of environmental and human destruction, disguised as industrial accidents. [approximately 1,000 words; 8 pages @6x9]
Download or read book Dam Failure Mechanisms and Risk Assessment written by Limin Zhang and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book integrates the physical processes of dam breaching and the mathematical aspects of risk assessment in a concise manner • The first book that introduces the causes, processes and consequences of dam failures • Integrates the physical processes of dam breaching and the mathematical aspects of risk assessment in a concise manner • Emphasizes integrating theory and practice to better demonstrate the application of risk assessment and decision methodologies to real cases • Intends to formulate dam-breaching emergency management steps in a scientific structure
Download or read book Dams Incidents and Accidents written by K.R. Saxena and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-12-23 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing number of dams built in the last century has underlined the necessity of these constructions to the all-round development of a country. The advent of rock mechanics, engineering geology and a better understanding of materials have made it possible to construct higher and larger dams and to tackle more difficult sites. The assumptions and risks used in the theory of dam design include such unpredictable events as earthquakes, floods, and geological faults or soft seams, which may be either underestimated or completely missed during initial exploration. Incidents relating to dams are manageable at an early stage, whereas accidents, which are largely unforeseen, result in unexpected behaviour of dams and in catastrophic failures. Investigations conducted to determine the cause of a failure may not reveal the true sequence of events, while expert analyses are often controversial. From the dams that do not fail, of course, we learn nothing. Systematically monitoring the dam’s behaviour from the potential risk stage to the accident event, would allow a hazard-management programme to be implemented, minimising loss of life and property, and provide useful data.
Download or read book Dams and Public Safety written by Robert B. Jansen and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geotechnics for Developing Africa written by G.E. Blight and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings represent a valuable reference on geotechnical problems peculiar to Africa and for engineering solutions to local problems. Topics covered are: Foundation engineering and lateral support; Methods of design and analysis; Monitoring, laboratory and field testing; Municipal, industrial and mining waste and environmental geotechnics; Soil improvement; Transportation geotechnics; Case studies.The proceedings are also an invaluable source of data on the properties of African soils, the properties of residual and tropical soils, as well as climate related problems.
Download or read book Tailings and Mine Waste 2010 written by The Organizing Committee of the 14th International Conference on Tailings and Mine Waste and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-11-12 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tailings and Mine Waste 10 contains the contributions from the 14th annual Tailings and Mine Waste Conference, held by Colorado State University of Fort Collins, Colorado in conjunction with the University of Alberta and the University of British Columbia. The purpose of this series of conferences is to provide a forum for discussion and establish
Download or read book Geotechnical Engineering for Mine Waste Storage Facilities written by Geoffrey E. Blight and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a comprehensive treatment of the application of geotechnical engineering to site selection, site exploration, design, operation and closure of mine waste storage facilities.The level and content are suitable as a technical source and reference for practising engineers engaged both in the design and operational management of mine waste s
Download or read book Planning Design and Analysis of Tailings Dams written by Steven G. Vick and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Universities and Sustainable Communities Meeting the Goals of the Agenda 2030 written by Walter Leal Filho and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book showcases examples of university engagement in community initiatives and reports on the results from research and from a variety of institutional projects and programmes. As a whole, the book illustrates how actors at the community (microlevel) and other levels (meso and macro) can make valuable and concrete contributions to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and, more specifically, to achieving the objectives defined at the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It is one of the outcomes of the “Second World Symposium on Sustainability Science”, which was jointly organised by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (Brazil), the Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” and the “European School of Sustainability Science and Research” at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), in cooperation with the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP).
Download or read book Estimating Environmental Damages of a Tailings Dam Failure written by Mikołaj Czajkowski and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mine Wastes written by Bernd Lottermoser and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's best practice in environmental mine-waste management requires a thorough understanding of the wastes produced. The knowledge of mine wastes represents a new interdisciplinary science and this book provides an introductory, descriptive and analytic overview of the wastes produced in the mineral industry. It describes the characterization, prediction, monitoring, disposal and treatment as well as environmental impacts. Intended for undergraduate courses, it systematically builds the reader’s understanding and knowledge of the wastes produced, their physical and chemical characteristics, and how to deal responsibly with them on a short and long-term basis. The text employs 22 case studies spanning the world’s mineral industry that elucidate best practice and specific challenges in mine-waste management and site rehabilitation.
Download or read book Mining and Critical Ecosystems written by Marta Miranda and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is a culmination of a two-year research effort aimed at identifying environmentally and socially vulnerable areas at risk from mining. The report aims to provide a methodology that companies, governments, and civil society groups can use to develop a set of standards for environmentally responsible mining.
