A Comprehensive Review on Reasons for Tailings Dam Failures Based on Case History

Figure 2

(a) The sequence of retrogressive failures (redrawn after Wanger et al. 1998), the early stages of flooding over the dam. (b) The sequence of retrogressive failures (redrawn after Wanger et al. 1998), the later stages of flooding over the dam.

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