Fundao Tailings Dam Review Panel
The Fundão Tailings Dam failed on November 5, 2015 in a liquefaction flowslide that initiated at the dam’s left abutment. This Investigation was performed to determine its cause.
In structuring its investigation process, the Panel systematically identified and evaluated multiple causation hypotheses. It further imposed hypothesis testing by means of the following three questions that the candidate failure mechanism should be able to explain:
