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This chapter looks at one hundred years of tailings dams major failures “statistics” and shows how a systemic approach can be used to describe failure process of tailings dams.
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Oboni, F., Oboni, C. (2020). Historic Failures “Statistics”. In: Tailings Dam Management for the Twenty-First Century. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19447-5_4
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