An update on the Ministro Hales mine landslide in Chile
12 November 2021 08:22 in Mining by Dave Petley
An update on the Ministro Hales mine landslide in Chile
12 November 2021 08:22 in Mining by Dave Petley
An update on the Ministro Hales mine landslide in Chile
10 November 2021 07:44 in Mining by Dave Petley
A satellite image from Planet Labs shows the aftermath of a c.700 m landslide at the Ministro Hales mine in Chile between 8 and 9 November 2021. Thanks to @Geo_Risk for spotting this one.
6 September 2021 08:42 in Mining by Dave Petley
Catoca mine in Angola – using satellite imagery to understand recent events
28 July 2021 07:18 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Excellent drone footage has emerged of the development of the 31 May 2021 landslide at Bingham Canyon mine in Utah
16 July 2021 13:58 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Inden: a river rediscovering a previous course and flooding an open cast coal mine The floods in Germany, Belgium and Netherlands this week have been truly catastrophic. The same storm system also caused flash flooding in London. It is likely that the this event will have triggered landslides, but we will need to wait to get more information when the priority is rescue and recovery. There are suggestions that an …
4 June 2021 07:50 in Mining by Dave Petley
On 31 May 2021 a landslide occurred at the Bingham Canyon mine in Utah, USA. This failure was successfully anticipated through the application of geotechnical monitoring
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.
26 December 2020 12:56 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
The Carmen Copper Mine landslide in the Philippines – Planet Labs images showing the slope evolution before failure
24 December 2020 18:15 in Mining by Dave Petley
There are two amazing videos of the deadly landslide at the Carmen Copper Mine in the Philippines, which killed 10 people on Monday
15 December 2020 09:49 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
The large landslide at Gamsberg mine: a high resolution Planet Labs SkySat satellite image of the aftermath of the failure
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