Mining Consultancy SRK Consulting has once again called for stakeholder collaboration in the mining sector, this time to ensure safety in tailings storage facilities (TSFs), or tailings dams. Senior Geotechnical Engineer at the firm Linda Spies made the call at a Southern African Institute of Mining & Metallurgy (SAIMM) conference held recently.
Spies referred to incidents across the globe in recent years that caused a devastating loss of life due to unsafe tailing dams. Regulatory restrictions on mining companies have since become increasingly stringent, and Spies concludes that more collaboration is the key to ensuring compliance.
“After several hundred lives were lost in two well-publicised tailings dam failures in Brazil in 2015 and 2019, awareness of tailings dam risks has been raised within the mining industry and in the public eye globally,” she said. What made these incidents stand out in their impact is the fact that senior executives at mining companies were held to account.
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