Causes of accidents on the flotation tailing dumps in Serbia

Abstract

Flotation tailing dumps from the aspect of technology are necessary mining facility, and in terms of environmental present a real threat to the ecological environmental factors that are either in operation or the process of disposal is completed. In Serbia and in the world, numerous accidents occurred on the flotation tailing dumps due to the accidents. Occurrences of accidents deserve to be the subject of research in order to identify the mechanism of their formation, extent and scope of threats to the environment in order to trigger the requirements for design and installation of security systems, whose reliability should be greater than total probability of danger. All types of systems for prevention, detection and alarming shave their price of procurement, installation and use, which is generally proportional to the probability of reliability and operational safety. In this way, a functional link is established between the cost of installing the security and probability system on occurrence the accidents. This paper gives the causes of accidents classified by the cause of formation.