The UNEP recommended governments and mining companies adopt a "zero-failure" goal for mining impoundments known as tailings dams and impose stronger regulations.
There are an estimated 30,000 industrial mines worldwide and hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines that continue spewing pollution for decades after they've closed.
Advocacy groups said in response to this week's UNEP report that 341 people have been killed by mine waste accidents since 2008
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