Tailings dam failures have received significant attention in recent years due to the catastrophic downstream consequences, as evidenced by the 2019 Feijão disaster in Brazil …
K Islam, S Murakami - Global Environmental Change, 2021 - Elsevier
Tailings are the waste materials generated from mining activities and are typically stored in large man-made earthen dams in the form of slurry. Failures of such tailings dams can have …
V Maus, S Giljum, DM da Silva, J Gutschlhofer… - Scientific data, 2022 - nature.com
The growing demand for minerals has pushed mining activities into new areas increasingly affecting biodiversity-rich natural biomes. Mapping the land use of the global mining sector …
L Piciullo, EB Storrøsten, Z Liu, F Nadim, S Lacasse - Engineering Geology, 2022 - Elsevier
Tailings dams are commonly built incrementally to increase the storage capacity of the Tailings Storage Facility (TSF), usually without interrupting the mining activities. Dam …
R Xue, H Wang, Y Yang, MK Linnenluecke, K Jin… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Global businesses are facing increasingly significant climate risks. Firms with ESG controversies will likely suffer from higher financing costs and inadequate investment …
R Xiao, M Jiang, Z Li, X He - … Journal of Applied Earth Observation and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract On 1 May 2020, the Sardoba Reservoir in Uzbekistan breached its western wall, and the uncontrolled release of water caused casualties, environmental damages and …
H Jiao, Y Wu, H Wang, X Chen, Z Li, Y Wang… - Minerals …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Paste and Thickened Tailings (PTT) technology has the advantages of water- saving, dam safety, and environmentally friendly, which can improve tailings disposal and …
Natural hazards, which have the potential to cause catastrophic damage and loss to infrastructure, have increased significantly in recent decades. Thus, the construction …
Mining operations generate large amounts of wastes which are usually stored into large- scale storage facilities which pose major environmental concerns and must be properly …