We have been writing our last two posts in Italian, commenting on the “poor Italian risk-culture” (we were not talking about politics, but on cases like Taranto wide-spread contamination or L’Aquila earthquake sentence), but now we have another interesting subject of conversation linked to hurricane Sandy and its consequences to N.J. Trains. We are not going to discuss, as we do not trust “reporting scoops” in general, if the trains were actually flooded or damaged by some other hurricane-linked phenomenon;…
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Tailings Systems and Dams: ORE (Optimum Risk Estimates) help making better decisions and to avoid misleading the public. At Riskope (www.riskope.com) we are very proud of releasing our presentation at the Mining 2012, Keystone (CO) Conference. Tailings Systems and Dams: ORE (Optimum Risk Estimates) help making better decisions You can see and download the presentation for free here Riskope’s presentation at Mining 2012, Keystone (CO) Conference.
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Two storm gave us the opportunity to test the Balangero Asbestos Mine Environmental Risk Based Decision Making (RBDM) Restoration Design under Extreme Meteorological Conditions. In the past (2009) we already reported in this blog about an interesting environmental restoration project that was entirely designed using RBDM. As the project includes a large reforestation program, we have been updating our reports. In fact we just published and presented a paper on it at Tailings and Mine Waste 2011 Conference,Vancouver, Canada. Asbestos Mine…
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