GISTM

Tailings are forever so let’s talk about the people who live with them and why mining needs memory systems as enduring as the waste it leaves behind

At the AusIMM Life of Mine - Mine Waste and Tailings 2025 conference in Brisbane, Professor Deanna Kemp delivered a keynote address that cut to the core of one of mining’s most pressing and under-examined challenges: how tailings governance is - and isn’t - working when it comes to people.