Category Archives: Rate of Raise for Upstream Tailings Dams

BRUMADINHO HOVERED IN CONTINUAL STATE OF FRAGILITY THROUGHOUT ITS LIFE: EXPERT PANEL REPORT

Posted on December 13, 2019 by lindsaynewlandbowker

CONTACT: Lindsay Newland Bowker compiler@worldminetailingsfailures.org A real page turner!!! The expert panel technical cause of failure report commissioned by Vale was released yesterday (December 12, 2019). This is a very  distinguished  panel but as with all such commissioned  works it … Continue reading →

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CADIA TAILINGS FAILURE: THE BEST REGULATORY REGIME IN THE WORLD & RESPONSIBLE PRACTICE CANNOT GUARANTEE ZERO FAILURE

Posted on March 14, 2018 by lindsaynewlandbowker

March 14, 2018 Stonington, Maine contact:  Lindsay Newland Bowker , Compiler@WorldMineTailingsFailures.org Lindsay Newland Bowker LNBowker@BowkerAssociates.org Bowker Associates has not been able to piece together much of the history leading up to this failure nor much about the details of the … Continue reading →

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UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM TAILINGS MANAGEMENT REFORMS SHOULD BE PUBLICLY  ACCEPTED BY MAC & ICMM AND PRESENTED AT TAILINGS 2017

Posted on October 31, 2017 by lindsaynewlandbowker

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Stonington Maine November 1, 2017 CONTACT: Lindsay Newland Bowker, LNBowker@BowkerAssociates.org +1 207 367 5145 TAGS: UNEP Tailings Management Report; Reform Of Legal Framework for Tailings Facilities; Tailings Conference 2017; 2nd Anniversary Samarco TSF Failure; Mt Polley TSF … Continue reading →

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SAMARCO PANEL ATTRIBUTES PRIMARY CAUSE OF FAILURE TO INEFFECTIVE SEPARATION OF SLIMES AND SANDS AND INADEQUATE DRAINAGE OF SANDS

Posted on August 29, 2016 by lindsaynewlandbowker

Moments ago Vale, BHP and Samarco concluded their press conference presenting the findings of their indepdendent panel on the causes of the Fundao Tailings dam failure . The report was commissioned by Vale. A full copy in English is up at … Continue reading →

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Mining Financial Risks Post-“Super Cycle” Point to Escalated & Unexamined Already Accrued Public Liabilities & Environmental Security Losses

Posted on February 19, 2016 by lindsaynewlandbowker

Although this Ernst & Young report on “post super cycle” mining business risks speaks from the miners point of view, not from the environmental risk/public liability point of view, the economic realities presented here are what Bowker Chambers (2015) was pointing at … Continue reading →

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SAMARCO DAM FAILURE LARGEST BY FAR IN RECORDED HISTORY

Posted on December 12, 2015 by lindsaynewlandbowker

April 19,2018  Update Through creation of a magnitude index  which creates a single vector out of data for release, run out and deaths, we have confirmed that the Fundao is the largest failure in recorded history with a magnitude score … Continue reading →

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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 →

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