Case Study
Tailings Dam Monitoring
CASE STUDY Tailings Dam Monitoring The recent events at Mount Polley Mine in Canada (August 2014) and at the Two Gentlemen's gold-silver mine in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa (October 2014) have raised attention to the need to effectively monitor deformation of tailings dams to prevent catastrophic environmental disasters. Since September 2013, the Collahuasi copper mine in Chile has been successfully implementin