Otago Daily Times · 6 April 2026
“New anti-mine group takes aim at tailings dam failure risk”
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“...while pointing to the work of tailings dam expert Steven Vick, who said the eventual failure rate was 100%.”
«Santana also complains that it was inaccurate to refer to the expert mentioned in the article as "Prof Steven Vick" as he is not a professor. He is a geotechnical engineer and consultant with no university affiliation. The incorrect title inflated the apparent authority of the claim and misdirected readers.» «[T]he claims appear to have come from a research paper by Mr Vick in which he said that the structural failure probability of tailings dams "approaches 1.0 after several hundred years" [when constructed using 20th-century technology].»
read this one in full“Around 78% of the value of the gold will go to an Australian mining company, but we take on the majority of the risk.”
«Santana also complains that the claim that "Around 78% of the value of the gold will go to an Australian mining company" is presented as a direct quote and left to stand without challenge, qualification, or attribution to any identified source. It contradicts Santana's own calculations that suggests over 60% of gross profits are expected to remain in New Zealand.»
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