To achieve these commitments, Rio Tinto has established a formal dam safety programme through the Group Safety Standard for the Management of Tailings and Water Storage Facilities. The programme ...

However, critics warn that the tailings dams' nearly 50-year-old design is no match for modern environmental challenges like climate change, which increases the risk of extreme rainfall and flooding.

Key tailings management documents used in industry Introduction There exists a large volume of documentation relating to all aspects of design,construction,operation and closure of tailings facilities ...

Phoenix Tailings, a US-based startup specialising in rare-earth processing, has garnered support from BMW i Ventures and Yamaha Motor in its Series B financing round to boost rare-earth metals ...

and the existing tailings discharge system. The new 1,500 tpd flotation production line, equipped with a Knelson gravity concentrator, is able to produce silver-lead, zinc and copper concentrates, ...