AQ 2006-2005 in English

This code specifies safety requirements of tailing pond in several aspects such as construction, production run, safety inspection, degree of safety, pond enclosure, and reuse and safety evaluation.
This code is applicable to tailing pond of concentration plant for metallic and non-metallic minerals, red mud pond of alumina plant. It also can be taken as reference for wet industrial residue storage, cinder storage of generating station and tailing pond of dry treatment.

Foreword
1 Scope
2 Normative reference
3 Terms and definition
4 Tailing pond level and structure level
5 Tailing pond construction
6 Production run of tailing pond
7 Safety inspection of tailing pond
8 Safety level of tailing pond
9 Enclosure of tailing pond
10 Tailings reutilization and reutilization after pond enclosure
11 Safety evaluations for tailing pond
12 Records for tailing pond construction
Appendix A Seepage calculation for upstream tailing dam (Informative appendix)
Appendix B Average physical mechanics indices of dam body tailings (Informative appendix)