Global Tailings Management Institute is launched six years after the collapse of Vale's dam in Brumadinho

Agência Brasil - EBC
"Six years post fatal disaster, mines start global waste-dam body", 21 January 2025
...The Global Tailings Management Institute will oversee independent audits and the certification of member companies’ facilities based on their safety and public disclosures, the founders said in a statement. The International Council on Mining and Metals, the United Nations Environment Programme and the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment co-founded the organization that will operate from Johannesburg...
The drive to set up the institute came after the disaster at Brumadinho, which the institute’s founders described in the statement as “a stark wake-up call.” Only four years earlier, a tailings-dam collapse at the Samarco mine in Brazil, co-owned by Vale and BHP Group Ltd., killed 19 and caused what analysts described as that country’s worst environmental disaster to date.
In 2022, a dam at the Jagersfontein diamond mine in South Africa burst, smothering almost 200 houses and killing three people.
Tailings-dam disasters across Europe, the US and Asia have killed people, destroyed property and caused massive environmental damage over the past seven decades...
In coming months, the institute will elect a board of directors, drawing from the investment community, mining industry, labor unions, regulatory authorities, environmental experts and potentially affected groups...