Research Catalog

Title

Case studies on tailings management / ICME, International Council on Metals and the Environment ; UNEP, United Nations Environment Programme.

Publication

Paris, France : UNEP ; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada : ICME, [1998]

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Additional Authors

• International Council on Metals and the Environment
• United Nations Environment Programme

Description

iv, 58 p. : col. ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

To enhance understanding of tailings management & demonstrate how the mining industry is managing the risks associated with tailings disposal, this publication offers a collection of 21 case studies prepared by technical experts throughout the industry in many parts of the world. Fully illustrated, it also provides an overview describing tailings, the main concerns & issues relating to them, & how they are managed by industry.

Alternative Title

Tailings management

Subject

• Tailings embankments
• Tailings dams
• Dams > Design and construction
• Embankments > Design and construction

Note

• "November 1998"--Cover, p. [2].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 58).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (EMS): Overview of an environmental management system: Endako Mine -- Anglogold's environmental management system -- The external audit: an efficient EMS tool for Rio Tinto Brazil Ltd. -- Risk assessment of tailings disposal at Osborne Mines -- A guide to the management of tailings facilities prepared by the Mining Association of Canada -- National regulations and codes: South Africa, Malaysia, and Mexico -- DESIGN AND OPERATIONS: Site selection criteria at Kennecott Utah Copper -- Site selection at Codelco-Chile -- Subaqueous tailings disposal: results of the MEND program -- Double safety system at the Ovacik Gold Mine -- WMC's central discharge tailings storage facility -- Conserving and protecting scarce water resources: Candelaria Copper -- Quality control and quality assurance at the Musselwhite Mine -- Operating and monitoring a tailings area: a falconbridge example -- Risk assessment of tailings areas at Noranda -- Monitoring tailings by telemetry at Rio Algom -- EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS: Mitsubishi's emergency management manual for tailings disposal at abandoned mines -- Emergency response during the Omai tailings dam failure -- Awareness and preparedness for emergencies at the local level (APELL) -- EDUCATION AND TRAINING: Tailings management and decommissioning: a short course -- Sustaining the corporate memory at Inco's Copper Cliff operations.

ISBN

189572029X

OCLC

• 42757962
• SCSB-11155590

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library