Civil engineers use public satellite images to study Jagersfontein dam failure ~
On 11 September last year, a diamond mine waste storage facility – known as a tailings dam – failed in the town of Jagersfontein in the Free State leading to the death of one person and the destruction of multiple homes.
Dr Luis Torres-Cruz and Christopher O’Donovan in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Wits authored the paper which was published in the journal Scientific Reports last week. “We expect our paper to be useful to those interested in understanding how this tragic event came to be and also to help prevent future failures,” says Dr Torres-Cruz, corresponding author and a senior lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering who specialises in geotechnical aspects of tailings dams.
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