How technology can help miners comply with new global tailings standard guidelines

Technology is key in helping miners comply with the recently released Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management, a set of guidelines aimed at strengthening current practices with the goal of zero harm to people and the environment.

Prepared by the United Nations Environment Program, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and the International Council on Metals and Mining (ICMM), the standard was a direct response to a series of lethal accidents that took place in recent years, with the failure of the tailings dam at Vale’s Córrego do Feijão mine being the latest of such incidents.

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