Tailings, Mine Closure & Social Licence to Operate

The programme

Tailings failures have rewritten the industry’s obligations, closure liabilities are moving onto balance sheets and permit conditions, and community consent has become as decisive as geology. This programme covers the triad as one discipline: tailings facility governance under the global industry standard — accountability, engineering review, monitoring and emergency preparedness; closure planned from the feasibility study, not the final year — progressive rehabilitation, cost estimation and the financial assurance regulators increasingly demand; and social licence built as a working relationship — baseline, grievance mechanisms, benefit sharing and the trust arithmetic that decides whether operations continue through disputes. Cases include African and Latin American operations, both failures and successes. For mine managers, HSE and environmental leads, regulators, financiers and community-relations teams.