Category Archives: Dirk Van Zyl

ICMM ISSUES SELF SERVING REPORT ON TAILINGS MANAGEMENT PRESERVING STATUS QUO

Posted on December 5, 2016 by lindsaynewlandbowker

CONTACT: Lindsay Newland Bowker, Bowker Associates lindsaynewlandbowker@gmail.com DATE Of Release: December 5, 2016   Today ICMM ( “The International Council on Mining & Metals”) issued its report on Tailings Management. Written by Golder Associates who played a major role in … Continue reading →

Posted in ANCOLD, AngloAmerican, Dirk Van Zyl, Golder Associates, ICCM Tailings Management Report, Jack Caldwell, MAC/CDA Tailings Guidelines, Mike Davies, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Brazil Initiates Environmental Crimes Investigation Against Vale, BHP and Samarco Officials On November 5th Tailings Dam Catastrophe

Posted on November 6, 2015 by lindsaynewlandbowker

Fact is BHP know why it failed. They just cannot tell us until the lawyers have vetted the communications why they ignored their peer reviewers, their consultants, and their FNEAs until people were dead They had an FMEA PIG plot … Continue reading →

Posted in alegria mine, Analysis TSF Failures, BHP, Bowker Associates Science & Research In The Public Interest, Brazil 's High Grade Iron Ores, Causes Of Catastrophic Tailings Dam Failures, Center For Science in Citizen Participation, David M. Chambers, Dirk Van Zyl, Frequency of TSF Failures BY Decade, Geoesteval, Germano Tailings Dam Failure, Height Limits of Earthen Dams, Lindsay Newland Bowker, mine Company Valutaion, Mine Feasibility, Mine Risk Management, Mining Economics, Mining Environmental Crimes, mining environmental risk management, mining public liability, Pimenta De Avilar, Rate of Raise for Upstream Tailings Dams, Risk & Public Liability of Tailings Dams, Risk Economics and Public Liability of Tailings Dam Failures, Samarco Environmental Crimes Investigation, Samarco Mineracao S.A., Samarco Tailings Master Plan, Samitri, Tailings Dam Risk Management, Upstream Tailings Dam Safety, Vale SA. | 6 Comments