TY - JOUR

T1 - A Review of Tailings Dam Safety Monitoring Guidelines and Systems

AU - Zare, Masoud

AU - Nasategay, Florida

AU - Gomez, Jose A.

AU - Moayedi Far, Arsham

AU - Sattarvand, Javad

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 by the authors.

PY - 2024/5/27

Y1 - 2024/5/27

N2 - The awareness of tailings dam safety monitoring has widened due to the recent disasters caused by failures of such structures. The failure rate of tailings dams worldwide (i.e., the percentage of failed dams out of total) is estimated at 1.2%, compared to the 0.01% rate for traditional water dams. Most of the tailings dam monitoring guidelines suggest that the owner develops a robust surveillance program to detect possible indicators of potential failures. This paper presents a thorough review of major guidelines on tailings storage facility (TSF) monitoring and surveillance, the visual parameters to be monitored, as well as good practice in the development of monitoring systems. This paper reviews the recent literature with an emphasis on the development of monitoring systems utilizing sensors, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and satellite images that may be considered as supplementary guarantees against failure events.

AB - The awareness of tailings dam safety monitoring has widened due to the recent disasters caused by failures of such structures. The failure rate of tailings dams worldwide (i.e., the percentage of failed dams out of total) is estimated at 1.2%, compared to the 0.01% rate for traditional water dams. Most of the tailings dam monitoring guidelines suggest that the owner develops a robust surveillance program to detect possible indicators of potential failures. This paper presents a thorough review of major guidelines on tailings storage facility (TSF) monitoring and surveillance, the visual parameters to be monitored, as well as good practice in the development of monitoring systems. This paper reviews the recent literature with an emphasis on the development of monitoring systems utilizing sensors, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and satellite images that may be considered as supplementary guarantees against failure events.

KW - monitoring system

KW - safety

KW - stability

KW - tailings dam

UR - https://doi.org/10.3390/min14060551

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85197170882&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.3390/min14060551

DO - 10.3390/min14060551

M3 - Article

VL - 14.2024

JO - Minerals

JF - Minerals

SN - 2075-163X

IS - 6

M1 - 551

ER -