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.
Tags: brazil, featured, investigation, landslide report, mining, South America, tailings
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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12 November 2015 08:26 in landslide report, landslide video by Dave Petley
A video on Youtube combines bits of footage of the Samarco dam failure and mudslide that destroyed the town of Bento Rodrigues in Brazil a week ago
Tags: brazil, dam, featured, landslide video, samarco, South America, tailings
8 November 2015 10:49 in landslide report by Dave Petley
It now appears that about 30 people died in the Samarco talings dam disaster at Bento Rodriguez in Brazil on Thursday. Two tailings dams collapsed, starting with a large upstream structure,
Tags: dam, featured, South America, tailings
12 January 2022 08:08 in Mining by Dave Petley
Flow from the mining landslide at Pau Branco The mining landslide at Pau Branco caused a significant release of mine waste, which appears to have flowed into the water retention structure below. This image, from the Observatório da Mineração, shows the flow path:- . As the image shows, the landslide overtopped the retaining structure, which remained essentially intact (note the superficial erosion on either side of the dam abutments). The …
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16 July 2019 06:35 in Tailings by Dave Petley
On 10th July 2019 another significant tailings dam failure occurred, this time at the Cobriza mine in Peru, releasing cyanide pollution into the Rio Mantaro
Tags: featured, mine, mining, Petu, South America, tailings, tailings dam
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.
Tags: brazil, dam, rock slope, South America, tailings
13 May 2019 06:03 in Tailings by Dave Petley
A Perspectives article in Science (Santamarina et al. 2019) argues that we need a better understanding of the processes leading to tailings dam failures as well as greatly improved management and regulation of tailings facilities
Tags: featured, mine, mining, review, tailings, tailings dam failures
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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1 February 2019 07:31 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The human and environmental costs of the Brumadinho disaster in Brazil are becoming increasingly clear, whilst speculation continues as to the causes of the collapse of the tailings dam
Tags: brazil, Brumadinho, features, mine, mining, planet, South America, tailings
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