The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Recently, I stumbled across a small gallery of images on the Our Heritage site of Rhondda Cynon Taf that show a major coal waste landslide that struck the South Wales village of […]
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Metallic Nodules Create Oxygen in the Ocean’s Abyss
These nodules, a focus of seabed mining interests, could be natural “geobatteries” and play a larger-than-expected role in the deep-sea ecosystem.
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The 25 July 2024 landslide at La Rivière quarry near Rovon in France
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. On 25 July 2024, a major landslide occurred at La Rivière quarry near Rovon in Isère, France. This landslide, which occurred at around 7 pm local time, crossed the D1532 road. At […]
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Drone footage of the 6 July 2024 mining landslide at Tulabolo in Sulawesi
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. On 6 July 2024, a landslide struck a mining community located at Tulabolo, which is in the Bone Bolango district of Gorontalo province, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Recovery operations continue at the landslide site, […]
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More information about the 24 June 2024 heap leach landslide at Eagle Mine in Canada
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Information is emerging about the 24 June 2024 landslide at Eagle Mine in Yukon, Canada. Northern Miner has a video taken from an aircraft flying over the site that is worth a […]
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A major landslide at a heap leach pad at Eagle Gold Mine in the Yukon, Canada
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. In a short statement on its website yesterday, Victoria Gold (“a mining company focused on the Yukon”) confirmed that “the heap leach pad (“HLP”) at the Eagle Gold Mine in Yukon experienced […]
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The 13 June 2024 tailings dam failure at the Chinchorro TSF at Peñablanca in Chile
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. At about 8 pm on 13 June 2024, a failure occurred in the embankment wall of the Chinchorro tailings storage facility, close to the village of Peñablanca, near the town of Cabildo […]
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New satellite imagery of the 11 May 2024 tailings failure at Siana in Surigao del Norte, Philippines
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Just under a month ago, I wrote about the tailings failure at the Siana gold mine in Surigao del Norte, Philippines. Capella Space captured good radar imagery of the site. We now […]
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Cerrando la brecha entre las geociencias y la seguridad nacional
La comunidad de geociencias y las agencias de seguridad nacional necesitan una comunicación efectiva y bidireccional para intercambiar información.
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Satellite images of the 11 May 2024 tailings failure at Siana in Surigao del Norte, Philippines
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Satellite imagery has now become available of the tailings landslide that affected the Siana gold mine in the Philippines on 11 May 2024. An interesting image has been captured by Capella Space, […]