See All Key Ideas Since February of this year, a tailings dam at the QMM mine in Madagascar has failed at least twice. Hazardous mine wastewater overflowed and contaminated the surrounding lagoon ...

The Montana Resources mine in Butte has applied to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality to amend the mine's permit ...

JOHANNESURG (miningweekly.com) – The tragic tailings dam breach in Brazil that killed more than 270 people has focused the world of mining on making tailings dams safe. Earlier this year ...

Nobody is in authority, and so the mining economy is transitioning back to the way it was before South Africa became a unitary sovereign state. You see, tailings dams matter, because their safety ...