Tailing dams’ accidents and compliance failures: A study in Brazil and Canada

The mining is an activity of importance to the world economy moving billions of dollars/years and employing a network of people. After the tragedies observed in Brazil over mining dams, reflections have been raised about the safety of these environments and their impacts on the environment. This paper focused on compliance weakness on tailing dams' regulations in Brazil and the impacts of environmental accidents in Canada. Besides that, it did a bibliometric analysis with tailing dams’ strings/terms relationed and a comparative Brazil-Canada, a developed country where a similar accident with a tailing dam happened. It discussed the following topics: Salient keywords and Emerging themes, temporal and geographical distribution of publications; growth publication; word cloud, the federal legislation, and instruments for safety of dams, regulations, and the role of inspections agencies, tailing dam accidents and the Canadian scenario of mining regulations and make a comparison between these two countries.