Resources

Learn how ICMM is promoting leading environmental and social practices to encourage better industry performance.

Tailings Progress Report: Implementing the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM) 

The Tailings Progress Report aggregates data from ICMM company members’ August 2025 disclosures, offering a transparent snapshot of collective progress towards full conformance with the GISTM.

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Member Disclosures on Progress Towards Conformance with the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management

We are pleased to share the considerable progress that ICMM members have made towards conformance with the Standard.

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From Risk to Resource: Collaborating to Accelerate Tailings Innovation

Discover how industry, academia, and innovators are transforming mine tailings from waste to resource through cutting-edge technologies and global collaboration.

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Measuring Circularity Within Metals Value Chains: Opportunities and Challenges

ICMM partnered with Circle Economy Consulting and ICA to explore the importance, opportunities, and challenges of measuring circularity within the mining industry and across its broader value chains.

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Tailings Management: Good Practice Guide

This guidance supports the safe and responsible management of tailings with the ultimate goal of eliminating fatalities and catastrophic events.

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Five Ways ICMM Members are Embracing Circularity

Discover more about ICMM members are embracing circularity throughout their operations.

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Tools for Circularity

ICMM members are continuing to improve circularity at both their mine sites and across their value chains, to enhance their contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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Seven ways ICMM members are exploring innovative technologies to reduce mine tailings

Tailings production is inherent to minerals and metals processing, and will remain so for a foreseeable time. While there's a significant need to reduce tailings this can represent an opportunity, as these examples demonstrate.

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Tailings Reduction Roadmap

The 'Roadmap' provides strategic directions on how to accelerate the development and adoption of technologies capable of reducing tailings production.

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Adapting the ICMM Tailings Management Good Practice Guide into Training Materials

Training materials to build capacity and raise awareness of why tailings management is so important, and to illustrate what good governance and engineering practices look like

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Conformance Protocols: Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management

Protocols to help operators and independent third parties assess the implementation of the requirements of the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management, and ultimately demonstrate conformance.

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Mining with principles at Anglo American's Los Bronces copper mine

Anglo American has launched a pilot photovoltaic plant, built over a tailings pond at its Los Bronces copper mine in Chile.

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Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management

Underpinned by an integrated approach to tailings management, the Standard aims to prevent catastrophic failure and enhance the safety of mine tailings facilities across the globe.

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Review of Tailings Management Guidelines and Recommendations for Improvement

A review of corporate-level tailings storage facility management across the ICMM membership, including standards, guidelines and risk controls, governance and emergency preparedness.

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Position Statement: Tailings Governance Framework

Enhancing focus on the key governance elements necessary for maintaining the integrity of tailings storage facilities (TSFs).

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Mining with Principles at Gold Fields’ Damang mine tailings site in Ghana

Gold Fields' Gold Fields’ Damang mine tailings facility was rehabilitated as many animals species had begun using the tailings facility supernatant pond.

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What causes tailings, and what can we do to reduce their impact on nature?

While mining uses less than 0.1 per cent of the world’s land, its impact can be considerable in ecologically and culturally sensitive areas. ICMM members are committed to helping work towards a nat...

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