The Social Cost of Tailings Management

Speaker:  Angélica Amanda Andrade

Abstract:  By raising awareness of the effects of the tailings dam disaster in Brumadinho, Brazil, Angélica's goal is that all the necessary changes in the mining sector to avoid death and destruction, are accomplished. This seminar will inform engineers and scientists about the human cost of decisions and calculations that they might make in the course of their work. And to make them feel empowered to speak out to the highest management levels if they see unsafe practices that could endanger human lives and environmental damage. Preventing such disasters from occurring should be paramount to prevent the long process of remediation.

Bio:  Angélica Amanda Andrade became a community representative and an advocate for justice and change in the mining sector after the Brumadinho dam failure. 
Angélica has been a key-note speaker at the UN-supported PRI in 2019 and in a European advocacy campaign where she met with several political representatives working on the issues of human rights. Angélica has spoken at the Summit on Global Mining and Tailings Safety, London, on the first anniversary of the tragedy and has been a guest speaker at the Global Launch of the ICMM Industry Standard on Tailings Management - GISTM.
Since 2019 Angélica has been an active member of Avabrum, attending many  events as a community representative, and in 2021 was invited to join the UN Global Tailings Management Institute Advisory Panel for the formation and establishment of the Institute. 

This seminar is supported by the AusIMM Health & Safety Society and CEEC International.