A Roadmap for Improved Mine Waste Management: Summary Report of the Workshop on Mine Waste

A term used to describe the accidental release of mine waste from a tailings storage facility (TSF). But failures can also include the failure to prevent and manage environmental risks, failure to communicate risk to local communities, failure toplan for accidents, failure toplan for adequatemine closure, failure to consider future generations and failure to look for innovative solutions to the current problem of mine waste. The roadmap for improved mine waste management has to address all these failures. Tailings Dam Failure

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