24 January 2022 08:01 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Thelkoloi: another tailings failure, this time in India On Thursday 20 January 2022 another tailings failure occurred, this time at Thelkoloi in Odisha, India. The failure has been reported in some of the media in India, but not more widely. For example, the Hindustan Times reports that the failure was in a slurry pond from the JSW Bhushan Power and Steel Limited works in Sambalpur district. It suggests that a …
Tags: featured, India, mine, mine waste, mining, South asia South africa, tailings
27 October 2021 06:33 in Mining by Dave Petley
Yesterday the Welsh Government released the results of an analysis of coal waste tips across South Wales. A total of 2,456 tips have been identified, of which 327 have been determined to have the potential to cause risk to safety.
Tags: coal, coal waste, featured, hazard, mine, mining, mitigation, risk
10 June 2021 07:49 in Mining by Dave Petley
The Law Commission has published welcome proposals to change the legal framework on the management of coal tip safety in England and Wales
Tags: coal tips, england, Europe, featured, mine, mining, Wales
6 November 2020 08:34 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Hurricane Eta: news reports indicate that dozens of people have been killed by landslides in Central America, with at least 50 deaths in Guatemala alone
Tags: Central America, costa rica, featured, Guatemala, Honduras, hurricane, landslide report, Nicaragua, Panama
12 October 2020 07:10 in Conference by Dave Petley
As the virtual AGU Fall Meeting 2020 starts to approach, I thought I would pull together a list of the main landslide sessions
Tags: AGU, conference, featured, meeting, San Francisco, USA
30 June 2020 06:54 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A state of emergency has been declared as a result of the valley-blocking 18 June 2020 Achoma landslide on the Rio Colca in Peru
Tags: barrier lake, featured, landslide dam, landslide report, Peru, South America
18 February 2020 06:58 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Images of the Tylorstown landslide show that it was a rotational landslide in coal waste that transitioned into a flowslide.
Tags: coal, Europe, featured, flowslide, landslide report, mine, mining, UK, Wales
15 July 2019 06:18 in landslide report by Dave Petley
At the end of last week, Godre’r Graig Primary School, near Pontardawe in South Wales, was temporarily closed due to the risks of a spoil tip landslide
Tags: featured, landslide report, mining, spoil, Wales
12 March 2018 08:20 in Tailings by Dave Petley
On Friday a significant tailings dam failure occurred at the Cadia gold mine in Australia, causing production to be stopped. Fortunately, to date no release of tailings beyond the boundaries of the mine has occurred.
Tags: Austrlia, featured, mine, mining, tailings, waste
18 October 2016 07:23 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The tribunal into the Aberfan disaster robustly criticised the National Coal Board for their failure to learn from a number of previous significant landslides in spoil heaps, including some at Aberfan itself
Tags: Aberfan, Europe, featured, mining, South wales, spoil, UK
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