On the 19th of July, 1985 in Tesero, Northern Italy, a tailings dam gave way and killed 268 people. With the most common tailings dam design in the world, what went wrong and how widespread are the risks?With John Chidgey.Links of potential interest:

Stava tailings dam failure
Water Management Considerations for Conventional Storage
Conventional Impoundment Storage - The current techniques
The Stava Mudflow of 19 July 1985 PDF
Liquefaction
The Val di Stava Dam Collapse
Mine Tailings Safety Stava Report PDF
Val di Stava Dam Collapse
Tailings Dam
The Stava Tailings Dam Failure
Fondazione Stava 1985 [Italian]

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