Managing Mine Tailings Dams Safely | Anglo American

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Introduction

Extracting and processing ore involves significant quantities of residue material – including tailings.

As the world’s demand for raw materials has grown at an accelerating pace in recent decades, and as the grades of many ores have decreased over time, so the volumes of this residue material have increased, exponentially.

Here we talk about what tailings are, how we manage them safely and provide details of our tailings storage facilities around the world.

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