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Regulations or Risk-based regulations for mine waste management

In these days of increased scrutiny by regulators and public opinion pressure we face a conundrum: Regulations or Risk-based regulations for mine waste management? The 2015 South African regulations reportedly specify design standards for mining waste disposal facilities based on the character of waste. As discussed in our recent blog post on mine waste classification systems waste characterization is a measure of the waste hazard and not of the risks generated by those wastes. Regulations based on hazards are ubiquitous…

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