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New exclusive research by SRK and Ask Harbour reveals alarming blind spots in how the world’s largest mining companies manage their tailings storage facilities. While traditional risk assessment methods focus on technical factors, our findings expose a dangerous oversight: the critical role of human factors and evolving hazards that could lead to catastrophic failures.

Download insights from 30 of the world’s largest mining companies in our comprehensive infographic to discover:

  • Key risk assessment gaps that could impact your operations.
  • How leading companies are evolving their tailings management approaches.
  • Critical human factors that traditional methods overlook.
  • Industry benchmarks for modern TSF safety protocols.
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Optimizing Tailings Dam Safety

Optimizing Tailings Dam Safety: Integrating Human Factors and Evolving Hazards

The mining industry faces significant challenges in managing both inactive and active tailings storage facilities (TSFs), which vary widely in size, environmental parameters, and maintenance issues. 

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Navigating Tailings Storage Facility Closure

Navigating Tailings Storage Facility Closure: Accounting for Long-Term Uncertainties

Presented as a key topic at the latest ACG tailings seminar, SRK’s Justin Walls discussed the complexities of Tailings Storage Facility (TSF) closure design processes, shedding light on the critical considerations needed to meet long-term closure goals.

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Probabilistic Tailings Dam Safety

Probabilistic Tailings Dam Safety: Outsmarting Triggers and Quantifying Risk Failure

When Alejo Sfriso, corporate consultant at SRK Consulting Argentina, stepped up to the podium at the Life of Mine | Mine Waste and Tailings 2025 conference in Brisbane, his message was as direct as it was disruptive: it’s time to leave deterministic factor-of-safety thinking behind. 

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Tackling Tailings Risks

Probabilistic Tailings Dam Safety: Outsmarting Triggers and Quantifying Risk Failure

When Alejo Sfriso, corporate consultant at SRK Consulting Argentina, stepped up to the podium at the Life of Mine | Mine Waste and Tailings 2025 conference in Brisbane, his message was as direct as it was disruptive: it’s time to leave deterministic factor-of-safety thinking behind. 

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GISTM Drives Multidisciplinary Focus

GISTM Drives Multidisciplinary Focus to Boost Tailings Safety

It is five years since the launch of the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM) to improve the safety of mines’ tailings facilities, and the mining sector has been working on integrating more disciplines towards this goal.

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Discover more SRK research across a range of topics in the SRK Horizons Programme.

From Conceptual Design to Progressive Closure of a Dry-Stack in a High Seismic and Tropical Setting: A Case History
Diego Cobos, Colleen Crystal, Ana María Ariza

This paper presents a case study of a 2,500 tpd operation, summarizing the observational method approach applied before and after startup to refine tailings characterization, placement, handling, and compaction specifications.

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Comparative Study Of Surface Flux Boundary Models To Design Soil Covers For Mine Waste Facilities
Michel Noël, Maritz Rykaart

The design of soil covers as part of the remediation initiatives for mine waste facilities is common practice and more and more engineers are faced with designing these facilities.

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