Just six years on from the horrific Brumadinho disaster, it is still difficult to talk about mine tailings without recalling those events. The sudden failure of the dam at the Córrego do Feijão iron ...
A new report by Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW) has found that the mine’s tailings dam is at a very serious and imminent risk of failure due to poor monitoring and internal erosion.
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Collapse in Chambishi — tailings failure is a canary in Zambia’s CopperbeltOn Tuesday, 18 February a catastrophic failure occurred at Sino Metals’ tailings dam in Chambishi, Zambia, releasing more than 50 million litres of acidic effluent into the Mwambashi River.
The catastrophic failure of a tailings dam at Sino Metals’ Chambishi mine in Zambia ’s Copperbelt, releasing over 50 million litres of acidic effluent into the Mwambashi River, has reignited concerns ...
A B.C. mining company has been penalized more than $54,000 after it failed to prevent contaminated wastewater from ...
A major environmental disaster has struck Zambia. A once-thriving river was rendered lifeless overnight due to a massive ...
Failure of the tailings dam at Brumadinho in January 2019 brought environmental and humanitarian liabilities along with elevated attention to its social licence. We think Vale will do what is ...
In 2014, B.C.'s Mount Polley tailings dam failed, pouring over 24 million cubic metres of toxic sludge into the surrounding waterways in North America’s biggest such failure on record.
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