{"id":1161738,"date":"2020-01-24T08:10:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T14:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1012016"},"modified":"2020-01-24T08:10:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T14:10:13","slug":"global-database-of-tailing-dams-goes-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1161738","title":{"rendered":"Global database of tailing dams goes live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian environmental organisation GRID-Arendal just launched the world&#8217;s first publicly accessible global database of mine tailings storage facilities.<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center d-xs-block d-sm-block d-md-none'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Under the title &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/tailing.grida.no\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Global Tailings Portal (opens in a new tab)\">Global Tailings Portal<\/a>,&#8221; the database was launched on the one-year anniversary of the tailings <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"dam collapse (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/video-shows-exact-moment-vales-dam-collapsed\/\" >dam collapse<\/a> in Brumadinho, Brazil, which killed hundreds and caused massive environmental destruction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After that disaster, a group of institutional investors led by the Church of England Pensions Board asked 726 of the world&#8217;s largest mining companies to disclose details about their tailings dams. Many of the companies complied, and the information they released has been incorporated into the database,&#8221; GRID-Arendal said in a media statement.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Besides the Church of England Pensions Board, the Swedish National Pension Funds\u2019 Council on Ethics and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/unep-urges-mining-companies-better-manage-tailings-facilities\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"United Nations Environment Program (opens in a new tab)\">United Nations Environment Program<\/a> support the initiative\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Until now, there has been no central database detailing the location and quantity of the mining industry&#8217;s liquid and solid waste.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new portal allows users to view detailed information on more than 1900 tailings dams, categorised by location, company, dam type, height, volume and risk, among other factors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This portal could save lives,&#8221; said Elaine Baker, director of the GRID-Arendal office at the University of Sydney, in the press brief. &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Tailing dams (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/unep-urges-mining-companies-better-manage-tailings-facilities\/\" >Tailing dams<\/a> are getting bigger and bigger. Mining companies have found most of the highest-grade ores and are now mining lower-grade ones, which create more waste. With this information, the entire industry can work towards reducing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/bonus-schemes-play-role-tailings-dams-failures-research\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"dam failures (opens in a new tab)\">dam failures<\/a> in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The resource is the first one to be publicly accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[624,369,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-miningcom","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161784,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161738\/revisions\/1161784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}