In their report, the researchers revealed that the Panama mine’s tailings dam was at serious risk of failure due to internal ...

a professor of mining at the country's Catholic University. Tailings dams are “under tight control. The problem is the little ones or those that have been abandoned” After more than 100 years ...

The tailings dam at the open-pit gold and copper mine in B.C.'s Cariboo region gave way in August 2014, spilling mine waste into nearby waterways and causing widespread environmental damage. Two ...

The spill happened on Feb. 18 when a tailings dam that holds acidic waste from a copper mine in the north of the country collapsed, according to investigators from the Engineering Institution of ...

And in December 2024, 15 federal Fisheries Act charges were laid against the mine's parent company, Imperial Metals Corp., and two other firms over the collapse of the tailings pond dam ...

Poorly constructed and maintained mine tailings dam structures are a significant threat to human safety, the environment and shareholders, the guidelines said. The GISTM was established after the 2019 ...

Ecuador's Ministry of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources said it would ban the use of so-called upstream tailings dams Ecuador unveiled new, tighter regulations for the design and ...