![]() The Brumadinho failure prompted the creation of the Global Industry Standard for Tailings Management which strives to achieve "zero harm to people and the environment" 5. The tragic failure occurred at a time of heightened global concern around the safety of tailings dams, especially after a failure in Brumadinho, Brazil killed 270 people in 2019 2, 3, 4. Figure 1 presents the immediate surroundings of the tailings dam prior to failure and highlights the proximity of residential areas to the dam. The failure released a mudflow that killed at least one person and destroyed multiple houses. On Sunday 11 September, 2022 a diamond mine waste storage facility, known as a tailings dam, failed in the town of Jagersfontein, South Africa 1.
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