The company said it hadn't abandoned earlier plans, the focus of a Minnesota DNR review on whether the mining permit should be denied. Plans for the NorthMet project include building dams to increase ...

With the latest tailings dam standards demanding a longer-term view of design, construction and closure outcomes, there is growing interest in design philosophies that incorporate shapes and processes ...

WINNEMUCCA, Nev., July 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Paramount Gold Nevada Corp. (NYSE American: PZG) ("Paramount” or “the Company”) announced today that the Oregon Water Resource Department (“OWRD”) ...

A sweeping global standard that sets out how the world's largest miners care for waste dams falls short of measures environmental and civil society groups say are needed to avert future disasters, ...

LONDON, 5 Aug 2020 – A revolutionary industry standard for the management of new and existing mine tailings facilities was introduced today, with the aim of eliminating tailings dam failures. Known as ...

Lost corporate memory and cost-cutting are likely to be key factors contributing to the tailings-dam design failures that are costing lives, and companies huge sums of money and reputational damage, ...

The disaster near the small town of Brumadinho in southeastern Brazil occurred shortly after midday: on 25 January 2019, at a nearby iron ore mine, the tailings dam – a storage area for the sludgy, ...

BRASILIA – Brazil's mining agency plans to ban upstream tailings dams used for storing mining waste, a director at the National Mining Agency (ANM) said on Thursday, after such a dam burst last month, ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - A sweeping global standard that sets out how the world's largest miners care for waste dams falls short of measures environmental and civil society groups say are needed to avert ...