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ORE2_Tailings supports ICMM global industry standard on tailings management conformance

ORE2_Tailings supports ICMM global industry standard on tailings management conformance (GISTM). ORE2_Tailings™ is a risk assessment platform specifically designed for tailings systems created by Riskope. We recently published the notes we took while reading ICMM guidance and conformance protocols. In that text we stated that ORE2_Tailings™ anticipated the requirements of ICMM GISTM. Indeed, the threads of our publications, which culminated with Tailings Dam Management for the Twenty-First Century shows that evolution. Today we bring to your attention an example…

Corrego do Feijao near Brumadinho Dam Failure

Our hearts are saddened to comment on the trajedy around Corrego do Feijao near Brumadinho Dam Failure. (Image: Portal R7.com | Twitter.) At this time we only have fragmentary data from the media. Thus we will focus on “peripheral” but very important concepts that seem to get lost in the aftermath of each new tragedy. These concepts emerged in the paper entitled A systemic look at tailings dams failure process, presented at Tailings and Mine Waste 2016, Keystone, Colorado, USA, October 2-5,…