Shoring up TSFs through better management in 2025
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: Integrating Human Factors and Evolving Hazards
The mining industry faces increasing challenges in managing both inactive and active tailings storage facilities (TSFs), which vary widely in size, environmental parameters, and maintenance requirements.
Navigating Tailings Storage Facility Closure: Accounting for Long-Term Uncertainties
Presented as a key topic at the recent ACG tailings seminar, SRK’s Justin Walls explores the complexities of TSF closure processes and highlights the critical considerations required to achieve long-term closure goals.
Probabilistic Tailings Dam Safety: Outsmarting Triggers and Quantifying Risk Failure
When Andy Spiers of SRK Consulting presented at the Life of Mine and Tailings 2025 conference in Brisbane, his message was clear: deterministic methods are no longer enough. This paper explores how probabilistic analysis offers a deeper understanding of failure triggers and overall TSF safety.
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 miners’ tailings facilities, and the mining sector has been working on integrating more disciplines towards this goal.
Tackling Tailings Risks
Mining Journal’s annual Tailings report features insights from SRK on GISTM compliance, evolving guidelines for non-operational facilities, and real-world case studies showcasing advancements in tailings risk management.