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Title
Tailings dam management for the twenty-first century : what mining companies need to know and do to thrive in our complex world / Franco Oboni and Cesar Oboni ; with contributions by Henry Brehaut.
ISBN
9783030194475 (electronic book)
3030194477 (electronic book)
9783030194468
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature, [2020]
Copyright
©2020
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
TN292
Dewey Decimal Classification
622.28
Summary
This book presents a comprehensive approach to address the need to improve the design of tailings dams, their management and the regulation of tailings management facilities to reduce, and eventually eliminate, the risk of such facilities failing. The scope of the challenge is well documented in the report by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and GRID Arendal entitled "Mine Tailings Storage: Safety Is No Accident," which was released in October 2017. The report recommends that "Regulators, industry and communities should adopt a shared, zero-failure objective to tailings storage facilities..." and identifies several areas where further improvements are required. In this context, the application of cutting-edge risk-assessment methodologies and risk-management practices can contribute to a significant reduction and eventual elimination of dam failures through Risk Informed Decision Making. As such, the book focuses on identifying and describing the risk-assessment approaches and risk-management practices that need to be implemented in order to develop a way forward to achieve socially acceptable levels of tailings dam risk.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed July 16, 2019).
Introduction
Two Recent Catastrophic Tailing Dams Accidents
Examples of Recent Catastrophic Hydro-Dam Accidents
Historic Failures "Statistics"
What the Public Wants; Public Reactions
Justifying the Need for new Approaches
Lets start with some serious Donts!
System Definition
Hazard Identification
Defining Probabilities of Events
Dam Stability Failures
Consequences
Tolerance and Acceptability
Risk Assessment for the Twenty-First Century
Risk-Informed Decision Making.
