Global Tailings Dam Portal Project
The Global Tailings Portal is a public, searchable database with detailed information on more than 1,700 mine tailings dams around the world
Mining and Mine Tailings in Asia
This report is a preliminary examination of mining and the management of mine tailings in five target countries – Papua New Guinea, Mongolia, the Philippines, India, and Indonesia. It is being prepared in response to the UNEA resolution 4/19 highlighting UNEP’s role in supporting governments to improve mining governance and in particular mine tailings management. Following the recent highly publicized Tailings storage facility failures (TSFs), governments, communities, and investors are keen to understand where these facilities are located and how they come to fail. The report compiles available information to locate and verify mines with TSFs (mines that may have TSFs but were unable to be verified are also included). It has made use of the GRID-Arendal Global Tailings Portal and publicly available data and information.
Status: Completed
Type: Monograph
Author: GRID-Arendal
Year of publication: 2025
Publisher: GRID-Arendal
Place of publication: Arendal, Norway
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