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Mining’s high-tech transformation has dramatically increased safety – but there is plenty more work to be done.
The action by the Environment Protection Authority follows alarming results from testing of rainwater tanks and the blood and hair of residents living near to the mine.
A new global standard on tailings dams aim to prevent mining disasters like the Brazil dam collapse in 2019 – but there’s more to do.
The Trump administration is supporting new mines in Alaska and Minnesota that many opponents say could devastate sensitive areas around them.
One of the most interesting developments to emerge from the disaster in Brazil is how investors can work together with mining companies and regulatory bodies to improve tailings management systems.
Mine communications are complex, slow and unreliable. The solution to keeping miners safe, and rescuing them when disaster strikes, might just be in their hands already.
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Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science , Colorado State University
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Assistant Professor of Water Quality, Colorado State University
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Professor and Director, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland
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Professorial Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Professor of Occupational Health and Safety in Mining, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of Environmental Health and Safety Engineering, Penn State
