1.2 The Objective of Twenty-First-Century Tailings Dams Management
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instead, in certain situations, serve the interests of a company or the industry. Using
the same perspective for mining companies, “economic capture” could be described
as the situation where short- or long-term economic factors are given precedence over
sustainability commitments and permit obligations. For the geotechnical community,
“client capture” could be used to describe situations where the engineer may be
influenced by client pressures in the performance of their work.
1.3 The Plan
The twenty-first-century tailings dams management discussion is split into three
parts.
Part I: State of Affairs
Chapter 2 describes the recent scene. Two catastrophic tailings dams failures (Mount
Polley and Samarco) are reviewed based on Independent Review Panel and other
forensic analyses.
Chapter 3 is similar to Chap. 2, but looks at recent hydro-dams failures and major
incidents.
Chapter 4 looks at the “statistics” of one hundred years of major tailings dams
failures and shows how a systemic approach can be used to describe the failure
process of tailings dams.
Chapter 5 analyzes public reactions and “what the public wants”.
Chapter 6 draws the conclusions from the documents of the previous chapters and
shows, under the form of “specifications”, why new approaches are indeed needed
for twenty-first-century tailings dams management and what such approaches should
entail.
Part II: How to Build a Twenty-First-Century Comprehensive Risk Management Program
Chapter 7 explains what not to do under the form of a list of DON’Ts.
You can follow step by step the build-up of a modern risk management program
from Chap. 8, System definition, all the way to Chap. 14, Risk assessment for the
twenty-first century.
Chapter 8, System definition, shows how to dissect a mining system into macroelements, that is, elements which are amenable to analyses.
Chapter 9 discusses hazard identification.
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instead, in certain situations, serve the interests of a company or the industry. Using
the same perspective for mining companies, “economic capture” could be described
as the situation where short- or long-term economic factors are given precedence over
sustainability commitments and permit obligations. For the geotechnical community,
“client capture” could be used to describe situations where the engineer may be
influenced by client pressures in the performance of their work.
1.3 The Plan
The twenty-first-century tailings dams management discussion is split into three
parts.
Part I: State of Affairs
Chapter 2 describes the recent scene. Two catastrophic tailings dams failures (Mount
Polley and Samarco) are reviewed based on Independent Review Panel and other
forensic analyses.
Chapter 3 is similar to Chap. 2, but looks at recent hydro-dams failures and major
incidents.
Chapter 4 looks at the “statistics” of one hundred years of major tailings dams
failures and shows how a systemic approach can be used to describe the failure
process of tailings dams.
Chapter 5 analyzes public reactions and “what the public wants”.
Chapter 6 draws the conclusions from the documents of the previous chapters and
shows, under the form of “specifications”, why new approaches are indeed needed
for twenty-first-century tailings dams management and what such approaches should
entail.
Part II: How to Build a Twenty-First-Century Comprehensive Risk Management Program
Chapter 7 explains what not to do under the form of a list of DON’Ts.
You can follow step by step the build-up of a modern risk management program
from Chap. 8, System definition, all the way to Chap. 14, Risk assessment for the
twenty-first century.
Chapter 8, System definition, shows how to dissect a mining system into macroelements, that is, elements which are amenable to analyses.
Chapter 9 discusses hazard identification.