Emergency federal government assessments are being sought for a spill of more than 105,000 gallons of tailings slurry at the Kensington Mine that occurred Jan. 31, although officials with mine owner ...

FLSmidth will be working with Goldcorp to develop EcoTails™, a new system to dramatically improve tailings and waste rock disposal while economically processing mine waste and increasing water ...

Reducing risks associated with tailings dams is a key area of focus for most mining companies, and for good reason. In addition to the environment, mining companies and the mining industry as a whole ...

"Dewatering of tailings is very much in focus now. Getting the water out of the tailings is one of the key avenues to ensuring a reliable TSF design post-discharge, and certainly there has been a lot ...

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Around 1 a.m. on August 4, 2014, a worker withdrawing water from the Mount Polley tailings pond dam was puzzled when he noticed he suddenly had no water. He would not know until later that, at the ...

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An aerial view looking southeast at Cleveland-Cliffs’ Milepost 7 tailings basin. The basin holds 40 years' worth of tailings behind dams and on top of a 2,100-acre footprint. An expansion project ...