Feb 91 minGlobal Industry Standard on Tailings ManagementOn 5 August 2020, Dr Bruno Oberle, alongside ICMM, UNEP and PRI launched the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management. The...
Jan 201 minSouth Africa has the world’s highest number of environmentally dangerous tailing damsSouth Africa has the highest number of dangerous tailing dams—structures constructed, often by mining companies, to store waste in liquid...
Jan 171 minAddressing the challenges of mine wasteA new research group at The University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute has developed a set of geometallurgical toolkits to...
Jan 171 minMine waste dams threaten the environment, even when they don’t failScars from large mining operations are permanently etched across the landscapes of the world. The environmental damage and human health...