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3 February 2020
Gongo Soco mine: Planet Labs images of the movement of the rock wall
Recent Planet Labs images capture the ongoing deformation of the rock wall above the Sul Superior Dam at the Gongo Soco mine in Brazil
20 January 2020
Brumadinho: the Expert Panel report on the failure of the Feijão tailings dam
Last month the official Expert Panel released its report on the Feijao tailings dam disaster at Brumadinho in Brazil, which killed over 300 people.
12 December 2019
The Kumtor gold mine landslide: high resolution Planet Labs images
Planet Labs have captured wonderful before and after SkySat images of the enormous Kumtor gold mine landslide in Kyrgyzstan last week
3 December 2019
Planet Labs images of the huge new landslide at Kumtor Mine in Kyrgyzstan
Planet Labs have captured before and after images of the huge new landslide at Kumtor Mine in Kyrgyzstan, which give an indication as to what went wrong
2 December 2019
Losses from mining-related landslides
Data suggests that the cost of mining-related landslides is increasing rapidly, with almost 3000 deaths in the period between 2014 and 2018.
28 October 2019
Gongo Soco: continued deformation of the slope of a high wall mine in Brazil
Gongo Soco: Google Earth and Planet Labs images show continued large-scale deformation of the rock wall at a large mine in Brazil
21 October 2019
Shchetinkino: a major dam collapse at a gold mine in Siberia
On Saturday 19 October 2019 a dam collapsed at a gold mine near to Shchetinkino in Siberia, killing 20 people and leaving many more injured
4 October 2019
Nosso Senhora do Livramento: another tailings dam failure in Brazil
On 1st October 2019, another significant tailings dam failure occurred in Brazil, this time at Nosso Senhora do Livramento in Mato Grosso.
27 September 2019
Tibesti – another mining-induced landslide
Yet another mining-induced landslide occurred yesterday, in the Tibesti region of Chad in Africa, killing about 30 people.
20 September 2019
The 1985 Stava tailings dam disaster
The failure of the Stava tailings dam in Trento, Italy in 1985 generated a mudflow that killed 268 people downstream of the facility.
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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