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Solomon Islands gold mine contaminated water spill disaster

The Solomon Islands gold mine contaminated water spill disaster constitutes a perfect case for discussing the concept of failure criteria. Failure criteria is the mirror image of the success criteria. Failures are the events that generate risks studied in risk assessments. Tailings dams are built with the purpose (goal) of storing byproducts of mining operations, i.e. the tailings. Tailings consist of finely ground ore (the mineral) and process effluents generated by mechanical and chemical processes. In fact, those processes goal…