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'Failure resides in the design': Mount Polley Review Panel

Michael Allan McCrae | January 30, 2015 | 8:32 pm Base Metals Precious Metals Canada Copper Gold 

Mount Polley's tailing dam failed because of design failures, wrote the government appointed panel that released its findings today. The panel said that ". . . there was no evidence that the failure was due to human intervention or overtopping...

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