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Tailings stewardship : “genuine” corporate responsibility

Tailings and Mine Waste Conference (2015 : Vancouver, B.C.); University of British Columbia. Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering

Tailings Stewardship has come to the forefront of the mining industry’s attention following the Mt. Polley tailings dam breach in British Columbia, Canada. Recognizing the negative impacts a tailings dam failure has on a mining company’s corporate social responsibility and market capitalization, combined with regulatory changes in Canada, Goldcorp Inc. (Goldcorp) has implemented additional tailings storage facility safety assurances. Tailings Stewardship is a management strategy that ensures best practices are implemented to properly design, construct, operate, maintain, monitor, and ultimately close tailings storage facilities. This article describes a stalwart Tailings Stewardship Strategy developed by Goldcorp and their Tailings Stewardship Team.

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2017-01-31

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/59169

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/