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Testing times for tailings dams

TAILINGS storage facilities need to be reviewed at least once a year at a minimum, the Queensland Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy says.

Noel Dyson
Guidance note calls for better TSF management to avoid disasters such as the one that befell Samarco.

Guidance note calls for better TSF management to avoid disasters such as the one that befell Samarco.

It said, in a guidance note on surface tailing storage facility management that mine management also had to audit to validate its TSF management systems, particularly that “sound risk-based controls are...

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