Tailings Dam Management for the Twenty-First Century: What Mining Companies Need to Know and Do to Thrive...

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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

Franco Oboni, Cesar Oboni, Henry Brehaut

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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
14 August 2020

Waste management; Natural disasters; Sustainability; Environmental monitoring; Waste treatment & disposal

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.

By: Franco Oboni, Cesar Oboni
Contributions by: Henry Brehaut
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 1st ed. 2020
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm,
Weight: 462g
ISBN: 9783030194499
ISBN 10: 3030194493
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 14 August 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction.- Two Recent Catastrophic Tailing Dams Accidents.- Examples of Recent Catastrophic Hydro-Dam Accidents.- Historic Failures “Statistics”.- What the Public Wants; Public Reactions.- Justifying the Need for new Approaches.- Let’s start with some serious Don’ts!.- System Definition.- Hazard Identification.- Defining Probabilities of Events.- Dam Stability Failures.- Consequences.- Tolerance and Acceptability.- Risk Assessment for the Twenty-First Century.- Risk-Informed Decision Making