China is one of the countries which have the largest number of tailings ponds with the highest disaster accident rates. One of the main reasons for disaster accidents is caused by tailings seepage. It not only causes water pollution, but also generates piping effect of dam body, swamp formation and seriously even dam-break. Therefore, tailings pond anti-seepage technology is particularly important in safety management of tailings pond, which provides a technical support for design, construction and management of tailings pond and guarantee to decrease environmental pollution and disaster accidents. Technological development of tailings pond anti-seepage in China has gone through three stages (primary, intermediate and advanced), from the initial rule-less to the subsequent rule-based and laws to go by. At present, tailings pond anti-seepage technology in China has entered into a favorable development period. A variety of new materials and new technology in tailings anti-seepage have been widely applied.
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