A SURVEY to boost safety at China’s tailings dumps will be completed by late October, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
The survey was prompted by a landslide at an unlicensed iron ore dump in Xiangfen in September 2008 which killed at least 267 people.
The results of the survey will be used to make better use of the existing dumps, which have long been described as environmentally hazardous.
Experts estimate China has 2,700 tailing dumps, with a combined capacity of 5 billion tons of waste.
The State Administration of Work Safety will also conduct a three-month safety check on the nation’s mining dumps, commencing from October 2008.
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