Thickening & Tailings

Environmental Impacts Assessment

Key Takeaways Environmental impact assessment for tailings facilities now runs largely on the same monitoring stack used for dam safety — GroundProbe radar, Worldsensing IoT sensors, and satellite InSAR — repurposed as an evidence source for compliance reporting. The Global Industry Standard on …

Tailings

Key Takeaways Tailings dam failure prediction has moved from periodic manual survey to continuous AI-driven monitoring — the key breakthrough is deep-learning models that separate normal consolidation settlement from precursor shear deformation (the actual warning sign) in InSAR satellite data. …

Thickening

Key Takeaways AI-based thickener control is a published, validated strategy — reinforcement-learning (proximal policy optimization) controllers have reported 10-15% flocculant savings in the literature. There’s no single dominant named “AI thickener” product yet — this capability …

Water Management Plans

Key Takeaways Water management planning for tailings and site water is still mostly a consultant-driven, document-based process. AI’s current role is in the monitoring data that feeds the plan, not in writing the plan itself. Platforms like Birdi and Insight Terra fuse prism, drone, …