This seminar will tackle the full range of issues that constitute risks in the management of mining wastes, particularly tailings and waste rock. It will provide a forum where practitioners, researchers and regulators can debate key shortcomings in our current understanding of the performance of mine waste storage facilities and associated risks faced by owners and operators of these facilities.

Aside from presentation of papers by selected authors, there will be a series of workshop sessions tackling specific issues of relevance, as well as a number of keynote lectures from international speakers to ensure the state-of-the-art is presented at this seminar.