Category Archives: Tailings Risk Management

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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GUADALCANAL COMMUNITY DOWNSTREAM OF TROUBLED GOLD RIDGE MINE FEAR DEWATERING IS OUT OF CONTROL

Posted on April 7, 2016 by lindsaynewlandbowker

April 7,2016   http://www.solomonstarnews.com/news/national/10086-heavy-rain-threatens-tailings-facility   Sadly, this news this morning from the Solomon’s, underscores the universality of the issues of disenfranchisement and lack of accountability to fundamental community needs and values that is indemic to the “social license to operate” … Continue reading →

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Herculano Mine Partners Indicted on First Degree Murder Charges For Worker Deaths In September 2014 Tailings Dam Failure

Posted on December 23, 2015 by lindsaynewlandbowker

http://www.em.com.br/app/noticia/gerais/2015/12/16/interna_gerais,717902/socios-da-herculano-mineracao-sao-indiciados-por-homicidio-doloso-por.shtml http://www.microsofttranslator.com/BV.aspx?ref=IE8Activity&a=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.em.com.br%2Fapp%2Fnoticia%2Fgerais%2F2015%2F12%2F16%2Finterna_gerais%2C717902%2Fsocios-da-herculano-mineracao-sao-indiciados-por-homicidio-doloso-por.shtml The indictment, announced December 16, 2015 is for  continuing to place tailings in a dam that was impaired , had already reached its capacity, and no longer was licensed to receive tailings. Findings also reference failure to notify authorities … Continue reading →

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Yellow Giant Mine Failure : Canada’s Flailing Against Declining Grades and Rising Production Costs

Posted on August 5, 2015 by lindsaynewlandbowker

  At its heart the Yellow Giant Mine failure which Van Couver Sun journalist Gordon Hoekstra, thankfully and with good research, is keeping front and center is about an improperly vetted deposit and unproven use of  pre-concentration technology.  The asset … Continue reading →

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20 Million Cubic Meter Tailings Facility At Gold Ridge Mine, Solomon Islands Teeters On Brink Of Collapse: Mining Journals Silent

Posted on July 31, 2015 by lindsaynewlandbowker

Latest Update  Downstream communities call for replacement of mine minister asserting that the issues of downstream risk have not been resolved satisfactorily to even consider a mine restart http://www.solomonstarnews.com/index.php/news/national/item/20238-i-ve-done-no-wrong Contact: 207 367 5145 lindsaynewlandbowker@gmail.com   Attracting no attention in any … Continue reading →

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Interdisciplinary Research Reveals Global Trend of Tailings Dam Failures That Will Result In $6 billion in Unfunded Unfundable Public Liability 2010-2019

Posted on July 23, 2015 by lindsaynewlandbowker

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw0jCpuVRzgEUkp2OXFaV1FlVm94dDZYYmJtQmExYWJ1eWhZ/view?usp=sharing Contact: David Chambers, President Center for Science In Public Participation , Bozeman Montana  (406-585-9854) Lindsay Newland Bowker, Director Bowker Associates Science & Research In The Public Interest  Stonington, Maine 207 367 5145 Catastrophic mine waste spills increasing in frequency, severity and … Continue reading →

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