The failures of engineered dams that retain freshwater or mining waste (tailings) have led to
socioeconomic and environmental consequences. However, the global magnitude …

Historically coal mining wastes have been viewed as heterogenous and hazard-prone
geomaterials. Given that failures of colliery tips and tailing dams are reported on a regular …

Tailings ponds are one of the three major production facilities in metal mines. The volume of
tailings increases year by year, but the storage capacity of existing tailings ponds is limited …

Mine tailings—the residue remaining after mineral processing—represent a serious risk to
the natural environment, and the failure of tailing storage facilities has caused some of the …

Large quantities of lead/zinc (Pb/Zn) mine tailings were deposited at tailings impoundments
without proper management, which have posed considerable risks to the local ecosystem …

The use of tailings dams in the mining industry is recurrent and a matter of concern given the
risk of collapse. The planning of tailings dam's emplacement usually attends construction …

Cemented paste backfill (CPB) that contains alkali-activated slag (AAS) produces more
desirable properties and performance (enhanced fluidity, higher strength, lower cost, and …

Billions of tons of hazardous mine waste are stored in thousands of tailings storage facilities
around the world. These impoundments represent one of the most important environmental …

Numerical runout models are important tools for predicting the potential downstream impacts
of tailings dam breaches that generate tailings flows, which is a crucial step in emergency …

Tailings flows resulting from tailings storage facility (TSF) failures can pose major risks to
downstream populations, infrastructure and ecosystems, as evidenced by the 2019 Feijão …