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List of tailings dam failures

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Image Event Country Date Fatalities Reference
1958 Mailuu-Suu tailings dam failure Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic 1958-04-16 0 [1]
1962 American Cyanamid spill United States of America 1962 [2]
1962 Huogudu tin tailings pond failure People's Republic of China 1962-09-26 171
1971 Certej dam failure Romania 1971-10-30 89 [3]
Buffalo Creek flood United States of America 1972-02-26 125 [4]
Church Rock uranium mill spill United States of America 1979-07-16 [5]
Sipalay dam failure Philippines 1982-10-08 [6]
Ok Tedi environmental disaster Papua New Guinea 1984 [7]
Val di Stava dam collapse Italy 1985-07-19 268 [8]
Merriespruit tailings dam disaster South Africa 1994-02-22 17 [9]
Omai Mine environmental incident Guyana 1995-08-19 [10]
Marcopper mining disaster Philippines 1996-03-24 [11]
Doñana disaster Spain 1998-04-25 [12]
2000 Baia Mare cyanide spill Romania 2000-01-30 [13]
Martin County coal slurry spill United States of America 2000-10-11 [14]
Rio Pomba Cataguases Dam Failure Brazil 2007-01-10 [15]
2008 Shanxi mudslide People's Republic of China 2008-09-08 277 [16]
Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill United States of America 2008-12-22 [17]
Ajka alumina plant accident Hungary 2010-10-04 10 [18]
Padcal tailings spills of August-September 2012 Philippines 2012-08-01 [19]
Obed Mountain coal mine spill Canada 2013-10-31 [20]
Likely dam breach Canada 2014-08-04
Itabirito dam disaster Brazil 2014-09-10 3 [21]
2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill United States of America 2015-08-05 [22]
Mariana dam disaster Brazil 2015-11-05 17 [23]
Barcarena water contamination Brazil 2018-02-16 [24]
Brumadinho dam disaster Brazil 2019-01-25 269 [25]
Rondônia dam rupture Brazil 2019-03-29 0 [26]
End of auto-generated list.