Quote from main page: A Guide to the Management of Tailings Facilities (the Tailings Guide) is designed to be applied by MAC members and non-MAC members alike, anywhere in the world. The Tailings Guide, first released in 1998, provides guidance on responsible tailings management, helps companies develop and implement site-specific tailings management systems, and improves consistency of application of engineering and management principles to tailings management.
This bulletin considers the environmental impact assessment that must be made at the planning stage. It also provides consideration of the environmental stability to be achieved during the years of tailings dam construction and the period after completion and rehabilitation.
This document provides guidance to help dam owners, in coordination with emergency management authorities, effectively develop and exercise emergency action plans for dams. The purpose of the guidance in this document is to meet that need. This document is an update of FEMA P-64, Federal Guidelines for Dam Safety: Emergency Action Planning for Dam Owners (2004).
This Dam Incident Planning Guide supports state, local, tribal, and territorial emergency managers in planning for dam incidents and failures by summarizing the concepts that a community should consider when creating dam incidentspecifc elements of local emergency operations plans. This guide builds on Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101: Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans.1 It also provides guidance for dam owners and operators on how to engage with emergency managers prior to an incident to ensure a well-coordinated response. Appendix A provides a general template for a community dam incident plan that can be adapted to meet each communitys needs.
Damage created by hydraulic fracturing during the drilling process and/or unacceptable methods of completing borings can open seepage paths which could create conditions conducive to piping and ultimately dam failure. This document provides guidance agency policy on the Bureau of Reclamations (Reclamation) investigation in embankment dams, including investigation planning, site preparation, borehole advancement, subsurface testing, and borehole completion.
Short introduction to planning surveys and basic considerations for completing surveys. Additional guidance docs in the appendices.
Recent TSF failure investigation reports and other literature have emphasised the need to consider innovative means for tailings management to facilitate a reduction of risk, but it appears likely that improved safety performance of TSFs will not only be achieved through advances in design methods, but also in selection of storage options that seek to reduce the consequence of facility failure. To this end, strategic planning in which large horizons of time and varying inter-dependencies of the components that make up the tailings operation are considered is essential. While this is widely acknowledged, there are limited published examples of how mining companies apply strategic planning considering whole-of-life comparisons linking the integration of TSFs embedded within the mine plan. This paper presents a set of case studies where significant benefits have been or are being realised through the integration of long-term tailings and mine planning functions at Rio Tinto Iron Ore mine sites.