CanBreach research team

CanBreach is a NSERC-funded university-industry research team whose purpose is to equip engineers with better tools, including computer simulations, to help manage the risks associated with tailings storage facilities. Using an integrated approach to research, the team will work to develop a better understanding of the mobility of tailings flow, breach mechanisms of tailings dams, and the downstream behaviour of long runout tailings flows.

Three universities

The University of British Columbia
University of Waterloo
Queen's University

Seven industrial partners

BGC Engineering
Golder/WSP
Klohn Crippen Berger
Knight Piésold
Imperial Oil
Rio Tinto
Suncor Energy

Funded by

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada