At 12:28 pm on January 25, 2019, the workers at Córrego do Feijão mine in Brumadinho, Brazil, were in the cafeteria for lunch. Dam-I collapsed without warning. Thirteen million cubic meters of iron ore tailings…
On February 13, 2024, the heap leach pad at the Çöpler Gold Mine in eastern Turkey collapsed. Ten million cubic meters of material mobilized in seconds, traveling nearly a kilometer through the valley below. Nine…
Every exploration geologist knows the feeling: months of planning, hundreds of thousands of dollars in drilling costs, and the core samples come back empty. The dreaded «dry hole» is not just a disappointment—it is a…
On February 22, 2023, the Xinjing Coal Mine in Inner Mongolia collapsed without warning. Fifty-three miners lost their lives. Economic losses exceeded $28.7 million. The subsequent investigation revealed what satellite deformation monitoring could have detected…