CSOs 4 Tailings Justice

We are committed to building democratic community power to address the dangers of mine waste, including tailings facilities.

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  • TSF-Mining 2023 Declaration

    Current realities, threats, resistance and our committment to alternatives for a future beyond extractivism.

    We, the participants of the Thematic Social Forum on Mining and Extractivist Economy, gathered in Semarang, Indonesia from the 16th to the 19th October 2023, to strengthen and build a broad global movement of resistance to mining and extractivism and build mutual solidarity and common solutions to guarantee human rights, the rights of nature and to ensure a just and equitable world for present and future generations.

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  • Second dam wall burst at Jagersfontein mine #Shorts

  • VIDEO: Hundreds displaced after Jagersfontein dam wall collapses, houses destroyed​

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  • Rate of ‘catastrophic’ mining waste failures rising across the planet

    A tailings dam for mining byproduct storage sits in a quarry at the Northam Platinum Ltd. Booysendal platinum mine outside the town of Lydenburg in Mpumalanga, South Africa, on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018. Booysendal will use a system developed by an Austrian company that builds ski lifts to transport the ore up a 30 degree incline out of a valley for processing, instead of the traditional conveyer used throughout South Africa or the more expensive option of trucking. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    Merriespruit was South Africa’s worst dam tailings disaster — 17 people were killed and 80 houses destroyed — but such events are rare, according to Mariette Liefferink, the chief executive of the Federation for a Sustainable Environment. But, since 2015, research of all serious failures of tailing storage facilities (TSF) around the world has shown that the rate of failures is rising. There are at least 18 000 of these mine waste disposal facilities globally. They contain the processed waste materials generated from mining metals and minerals in slurry.

    By Sheree Bega, The Green Guardian

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  • Mine Waste Leaves Toxic Legacies in South Africa – And International Launch of Tailings Report

    Tailings dams in South Africa pose serious risks to communities and ecosystems

    Mining Watch Canada, 24 May 2022. Source: The Mine Tailings Working Group of South Africa

    The Mine Tailings Working Group of South Africa, a partnership of civil society groups including the Bench Marks Foundation, Federation for Sustainable Environment (FSE). IANRA invites you to a hybrid seminar that will take place at the University of Johannesburg, Doornfontein campus. The seminar will meet in the Boardroom. Map here.

    Those attending in person must carry with them valid Covid Vaccination Certificate as proof of having been vaccinated.

    Those seeking to join online must register for the zoom link.

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  • BRAZIL: Brumadinho dam collapse – A disaster waiting to happen? – BBC News

    BBC News — On 25 January 2019, a dam at an iron ore mine in Brumadinho collapsed. It caused a huge landslide that buried everything in its path. More than 300 people were killed or are still missing. Vale – which owns the mine – is the world’s biggest producer of iron ore. It was the second mining disaster in the region since 2015, when a nearby dam co-owned by Vale also collapsed. Vale says the Brumadinho dam was assessed as safe by inspections over the years. Newsnight’s Gabriel Gatehouse went to Brazil in March, as bodies were still being pulled from the mud. He found a story not just about an industrial accident, but about a system of economic development and a way of life built upon the ever increasing extraction of finite natural resources.

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