Mine Asset Vista: The future of tailings management

Tailings storage facilities (TSFs) are among the highest-risk assets in the mining industry. They play an essential role in safely containing the waste materials that remain after valuable minerals are extracted from ore. Each facility represents a long-term, multidisciplinary responsibility, and expectations for transparent, evidence-based and defensible tailings governance and oversight continue to rise. As a result, effective monitoring, inspection and management are increasingly critical. 

Today, much of the information used to manage TSFs continues to rely on siloed data, disconnected tools and manual reporting. For many organizations, forming a comprehensive view of facility condition and risk—especially across portfolios—is a significant challenge. Teams often spend much of their time sourcing and reconciling data gathered across different systems and teams over many years. 

However, by leveraging advanced digital technologies to link technical evidence with facility context and governance requirements, organizations can move beyond reactive, document-driven oversight toward a more consistent, auditable and connected approach to tailings management.

Mine Asset Vista (MAV) is an AI-enabled digital tailings management solution developed by WSP under our partnership with Microsoft and in collaboration with clients. It is designed to help mining organizations better understand, govern and guide tailings storage facilities throughout their full life cycle. Grounded in WSP’s engineering expertise, and designed for cloud capability, Mine Asset Vista is a secure visual index and validated record of agreed-upon data designed to scale globally. It connects performance data, design intent, inspections, monitoring and risk frameworks to create a comprehensive view of facility condition, TARP triggers and risk thresholds, compliance progress and changes to the site over time. 

A single, adaptive interface gives each user the information they need for their role, which helps streamline reporting, strengthen governance and supports the modernization of tailings management with a system designed to meet operational realities. 

At its core, Mine Asset Vista is designed to support professionals across the mining industry. Technicians, operators, engineers and executives can have access to consistent and defensible insights to support robust, risk-informed tailings oversight. By presenting validated information relevant to different roles, it helps teams see what matters most, ask better questions and act with greater confidence to unlock improved decision-making for tailings management. 

Consolidating data for greater context 

At a high level, Mine Asset Vista works through four connected steps: 

• Bring information together - Existing facility content is ingested into MAV, allowing organizations to work with their current systems while creating a consolidated view of facility operations. 
• Structure and validate what matters - Key information is organized and remains traceable back to source evidence, such that oversight can be grounded in approved, auditable information. 
• Explore conditions and change over time - Users engage with facilities through maps, visual facility views, dashboards and timelines, enabling clearer visibility into current conditions, trends and emerging signals. 
• Access trusted guidance - Mine Asset Vista helps users retrieve and summarize factual, engineering-grade information. Insights are drawn from validated sources, supporting informed decision-making, confidence, and accountability. 

Mine Asset Vista is designed to connect information that already exists across tailings operations and place it into context in a shared, continuously updated view. Rather than creating another layer of reporting, it works as a secure visual index and governed source —a connected knowledge environment that supports consistent, defensible tailings governance and oversight.

With data brought together in context, teams can see how a facility is performing and evolving over time. 

The impact of insight 

The impact of MAV extends across individual teams and entire mining companies. You can: 

• Gain faster and clearer risk visibility through connected TARP triggers and trend detection. 
• Access streamlined reporting that reduces administrative effort and improves consistency. 
• Establish stronger governance with a defensible audit trail of evidence, controls and decisions. 
• Acquire enterprise scalability, giving a consistent view from a single TSF to a global portfolio. 

Mine Asset Vista in practice 

We have already seen clients using Mine Asset Vista unlock: 

• Safer tailings performance, supporting earlier detection and action on emerging risks.  
• More reliable compliance, helping align with modern expectations like the Global Industry Standard for Tailings Management (GISTM), the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) and the Mining Association of Canada (MAC).  
• Better collaboration across teams, as everyone works from the same validated source of information.  
• Greater confidence for boards, regulators and communities, through transparent, defensible oversight. 

MAV also applies agentic AI with a clear purpose: to help people see more clearly, not to decide for them. 

The solution’s AI-assisted outputs remain anchored to validated source material and recorded user actions. The system can show what evidence was used, what was retrieved and what decisions or updates were made. In practice, “traceable and transparent” means the system maintains links back to underlying documents or evidence and keeps an activity log or audit trail. 

Mine Asset Vista is designed with the core principle of supporting human decision-making, not replacing it. Because consequences are high and accountability matters for tailings management, Mine Asset Vista's insights are explainable, traceable and grounded in engineering judgment.