8 June 2023 06:33 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal NHESS (Tamburini-Beliveau et al. 2023) has measured ground work instability at the Cóndor Cliff dam in Argentina.
Tags: argentina, construction, dam, featured, INSAR, monitoring, satellite, South America
10 November 2022 06:55 in Mining by Dave Petley
Planet Labs has now captured and released high resolution imagery of the Williamson Mine tailings dam breach in Tanzania
Tags: Africa, featured, mine, mining, Planet Labs, tailings, Tanzania
9 November 2022 07:35 in Mining by Dave Petley
Planet Labs has captured a PlanetScope image of the Williamson Diamond Mine tailings dam failure that shows both the breach and the plume.
Tags: Africa, featured, mine, mining, tailings, tailings dam, Tanzania
8 November 2022 07:40 in Mining by Dave Petley
Another major tailings dam failure has occurred in Africa, this time at the Williamson Mine in Tanzania. The plume of pollution is >6 km long.
Tags: Africa, featured, mine, mining, Planet Labs, satellite image, tailings, Tanzania
4 October 2022 06:44 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Beshbadam landslide is a 4.4 km long failure in loess, triggered by a rain on snow event in Kyrgyzstan in the Spring of 1969.
Tags: Central Asia, featured, Kyrgyzstan, loess
26 September 2022 06:43 in Mining by Dave Petley
Satellite image company Planet Labs has released high resolution imagery of the Jagersfontein tailings dam failure
Tags: featured, mine, mining, Planet Labs, south africa, tailings, tailings dam
14 September 2022 06:57 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The Jagersfontein tailings dam accident: the plume of pollution has extended to the reservoir of the Kalkfontein Dam.
Tags: Africa, featured, mines, mining, south africa, tailings, tailings dam
13 September 2022 07:12 in Mining by Dave Petley
Aerial and satellite imagery of the Jagersfontein tailings dam disaster highlights a complex failure event and high mobility of the slimes.
Tags: Africa, featured, mine, mining, Planet Labs, satellite imagery, south africa, tailings, tailings dam
12 September 2022 06:41 in Mining by Dave Petley
On 11 September 2022 a major tailings dam failure occurred at Jagersfontein in South Africa. The local plume of pollution extends >8 km.
Tags: Africa, featured, mine, mining, planet, Planet Labs, satellite imagery, south africa, tailings, tailings dam
16 May 2022 07:03 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Damaging landslides have occurred as a result of heavy rainfall in Assam state in the northeast of India over the weekend.
Tags: featured, India, landslide report, monsoon, S. Asia, South Asia
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