Tailings Dam Management for the Twenty-First Century: What Mining Companies Need to Know and Do to Thrive in Our Complex World

by Franco Oboni

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030194469
• ISBN13: 9783030194468
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"