Tailings Dam Management for the Twenty-First Century What Mining Com
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 sco
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Tailings Dam Management for the Twenty-First Century What Mining Companies Need to Know and Do to Thrive in Our Complex World
Tailings Dam Management for the Twenty-First Century
Franco Oboni Cesar Oboni •
Tailings Dam Management for the Twenty-First Century What Mining Companies Need to Know and Do to Thrive in Our Complex World
With Contributions by Henry Brehaut
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Franco Oboni Oboni Riskope Associates Inc. Riskope Vancouver, BC, Canada
Cesar Oboni Oboni Riskope Associates Inc. Riskope Vancouver, BC, Canada
ISBN 978-3-030-19446-8 ISBN 978-3-030-19447-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19447-5
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Preface
Recent dam failures have demonstrated the need for improvements in the design, management and regulation of tailings management facilities to reduce, and eventually eliminate, the risks of failure of existing and future facilities. The scope of the challenge is well documented in UNEP GRID-Arendal assessment report entitled “Mine Tailings Storage: Safety Is No Accident,” which recommends that “Regulators, industry and communities should adopt a shared zero-failure objective to tailings storage facilities…” and identifies many areas where further improvements are required to meet this objective. In keeping with this objective, we believe that the application of cutting-edge risk assessment methodologies and risk management practices can contribute to the significant reduction and eventual elimination of dam failures through risk-based decision making and risk-informed decision making (respectively RBDM and RIDM). Thus, the primary purpose of this book is to identify and describe those risk a
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