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20 April 2015
The Bolshaya Talda earthflow in Russia was a mine waste failure
The Bolshaya Talda earthflow, which I featured on this blog on Friday was a mine waster landslide. Readers have helped identify the location of the slide.
9 March 2015
Hpakant – another serious Jade Mine landslide in Burma
On Friday another major mining related landslide occurred at a jade mine near Hpakant in Burma, killing between 50 and 100 miners
10 July 2014
Shawa mudslide: first pictures of another mining-related landslide?
Xinhua and other agencies have released images of the Shawa mudslide, Yunnan Province, which killed 17 people. It appears to be another mining-related slide.
2 January 2014
2013 landslides – the five most important events of the year
A personal review of the five most important landslides of 2013, including Kedarnath (India), Bingham Canyon (USA), Gyama (Tibet), La Pintada (Mexico) and Izu-Oshima (Japan)
26 September 2013
The costs to the mining industry of landslides – examples from Brazil and the USA
Two recent examples, from Brazil and Utah, demonstrate the potentially enormous financial impacts of landslides on the mining industry
13 June 2013
NASA Imagery of the Bingham Canyon landslide
NASA have collected an excellent satellite image of the Bingham Canyon landslide in Utah, USA
17 May 2013
Was the Bingham Canyon landslide the largest historic non-volcanic landslip in North America?
A review of the Bingham Canyon landslide – was it the largest ever historic, non-volcanic landslide in N. America?
6 May 2013
Analysing the Bingham Canyon mine landslide part 2: the landslide track
The second part of my three-part posting analysing the Bingham Canyon landslide using images provided by Kennecott Utah
30 April 2013
Analysing the Bingham Canyon mine landslide part 1: the landslide source area
Part one of a three part series of posts looking in detail at the Bingham Canyon mine landslide in Utah
26 April 2013
An update on the Bingham Canyon mine landslide
Kennecott allowed the media to visit the mine to see the landslide yesterday, and provided an update on their work
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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