News and site updates

NEWS (08/06/06):

  1. Details of the upcoming Paste07 Conference added to the events page.

NEWS and UPDATE (13/03/06):

  1. New site developed with a major overhaul of content.

NEWS (28/10/05):

  1. Government of the Philippine Province of Marinduque has filed a lawsuit against Placer for the Marcopper tailings spill of 1996. (click here)

NEWS (14/09/05):

  1. Due to the growing demand and bandwidth buffering of the site, it has been moved to a better server. Performance should increase. Thanks to the sponsors and supporters of the site who helped to pay for the transfer. Thank you.

NEWS (06/09/05):

  1. Irish government to pay 10.6 million euros to rehabilitate the Gortmore tailings facility and surrounding area in Silvermines, Ireland. (click here)

UPDATE (16/06/05)

  1. Purchase of tailings.com
  2. Hit page rank 1 on google.
  3. This site will be around for many more years to come!!!

UPDATE (26/05/05)

  1. Site overhaul.
  2. As of Feburary 2005 the site hit the front page of Google
  3. Purchase of tailings.com

UPDATE (16/02/05)

  1. Conference information updated
  2. Details on how to advertise on this site added (click here)

UPDATE (29/11/04)

  1. Information on the tailings backfill operations at Cleveland Potash Ltd has been added (click here)

UPDATE (03/11/04)

  1. The guestbook has been removed due to spamming
  2. The Expert Management System page has been added but no content yet

NEWS (07/09/04):

  1. A Phosphate/Gypsum mine in Florida had a release of 65 million gallons of treated fertilizer water.

UPDATE (17/05/04)

  1. Added Disputada, Lisheen and La Coipa casestudies. (click here)

UPDATE (14/05/04)

  1. Added a new casestudies map (Flash)
  2. Added the Highland Valley Copper Mine, Los Frailes and Kidd Creek Copper casestudies. (click here)
  3. Moved some bits around to make the site easier to navigate.

UPDATE (30/04/04)

  1. Added this update page
  2. Added a counter showing the number of unique visitors to this site
  3. Added a page on the Merriespruit tailings dam failure in the casestudies section (click here)

UPDATE (23/04/04)

  1. Two new tailings conferences added to the knowledge page (click here)

UPDATE (30/01/04)

  1. Added a page on the hydraulic mining of tailings (click here)

UPDATE (28/01/04)

  1. Image of the crack in the Omai tailings dam added to the accidents page.
  2. Details of the Aitik E-F dam failure (2000) and a image have been added.
  3. New conference related to tailings in Helsinki, Finland

UPDATE (25/11/03)

  1. Guestbook and email form added.

UPDATE (21/11/03):

  1. Lots of photos added
  2. Thickened Tailings Disposal section completed.

UPDATE (31/10/03):

Some documents have been added to the guideline section.

NEWS (24/10/03):

Grasberg open pit failure (no tailings but six people killed)

Photo 1, 2, 3

UPDATE (10/10/03):

Three recent tailings failures have been added to the list of accidents. Photos of the incidents have been included.

Cerro Negro, near Santiago, Chile

Cobrex Mine, Chile (Two incidents)

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