4 October 2019 06:56 in Mining by Dave Petley
On 1st October 2019, another significant tailings dam failure occurred in Brazil, this time at Nosso Senhora do Livramento in Mato Grosso.
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28 May 2019 06:29 in Tailings by Dave Petley
In Brazil another tailings dam, at the Gongo Soco mine in Barão de Cocais to the east of Belo Horizonte, is at risk of failure due to a rock wall collapse.
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25 March 2019 07:25 in Tailings by Dave Petley
Brazilian mining company Vale warned on Friday that the Sul Superior tailings dam, at the Gongo Soco mine in Minas Gerais, is at risk of imminent collapse
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27 January 2019 16:05 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The enormous scale of the tailings dam collapse at Feijão mine in Brumadinho, Brazil is now clear. The dam was 87 m high, holding c13 million cubic metres.
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30 August 2016 07:18 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Yesterday the official report into the Samarco Tailings Dam failure in Brazil was released. A website has been created to allow the report to be downloaded. The investigation documents a long series of management problems at the site prior to the final collapse.
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27 March 2016 08:07 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A new video has appeared on Youtube showing the remarkable mudflow released by the Samarco Tailings dam failure in Brazil in 2015
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6 November 2015 09:00 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Yesterday a catastrophic tailings dam failure led to mudflows that swept through the town of Bento Rodrigues in Brazil. At least 15 people were killed.
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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
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11 January 2022 08:10 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On 8 January 2022 a significant landslide occurred at the Pau Branco iron ore mine in Brazil, operated by the French company Vallourec.
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12 March 2021 09:23 in Tailings by Dave Petley
In a new open access paper published in Scientific Reports, Franks et al. (2021) show that 10% of tailings facilities have a history of instability. This rises to 18.3% for active upstream facilities.
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