Homepage Roşia Montană project Frequently Asked Questions The tailing management facility built at Rosia Montana is 100 times safer than an usual tailing dam

The tailing management facility built at Rosia Montana is 100 times safer than an usual tailing dam

I understood that a tailings management facility bigger than the Vidraru reservoir will be created in Roşia Montană. What will happen if the dam breaks down?

The RMP’s tailings management facility has been designed with increased safety and capacity to store extreme precipitations. Anywhere in the world, tailings management facilities are designed to store a single probable maximum precipitation (PMP); in the current project, the dam at Corna Valley may contain two consecutive probable maximum precipitations, while the probability for this to happen is 1 in 100 million years. This unusually large additional storage capacity, in addition to other design parameters of the Corna tailings management facility, make the dam system 100 times safer than most of the tailings dams in the world.