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Process effluents and mine tailings: sources, effects and

Most mining activities induce an impact on their geochemical environment (e.g., water, groundwater) due to the presence of metal-rich tailing deposits. The need for a comprehensive framework for mine tailings management that promotes sustainable development is therefore becoming increasingly recognized by the mining industry.

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Environmental and Health Consequences of Uranium Mining

In open-pit mining, rocks and soil are removed to expose and access the underlying uranium ore. These mines span hundreds to thousands of acres, as seen in Fig. 1. [4] ... which resulted in the death of 144 people. [7] Tailing ponds pose serious hazards to the environment as well through leaks, in which underground water becomes contaminated ...

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Mount Polley mine spill: a hazard of Canada's industry-friendly

T he scale of the devastation only became apparent from the air. A dam at a waste pond on the site of a British Columbia open-pit mine had burst, releasing 10m cubic meters of water and 4.5m cubic ...

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Information Circular

This PDF document provides guidelines for the disposal of tailings, the waste materials produced by mining operations. It covers topics such as site selection, design, construction, operation, and reclamation of tailings disposal facilities. It also discusses the environmental and safety aspects of tailings management. The document was published by the U.S. …

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Seven (of Hundreds) Environmental Nightmares Created by Open Pit …

< >The Berkeley open pit mine SuperFund site (Butte, Montana NASA satellite image. < >The 2015 Gold King Mine tailings pond disaster (Colorado) In 2015 the Gold King Mine tailings pond near Silverton, Coloradobreached and spilled into the Animas River estuary. The area is now an EPA SuperFund site. 3 million gallons of orange …

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Critics worry more tailings pond waste at gold mine could mean …

The company behind the Touquoy open-pit gold mine in Moose River has asked the province for permission to raise the height of a dam wall surrounding its tailing ponds, which consist of watered-down Critics worry more tailings pond waste at gold mine could mean disaster for Nova Scotia | Canada's National Observer: News & Analysis

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A resilience-based approach in managing the closure and

Mining tailing ponds are large infrastructure objects whose life cycle spans over several decades. They are indispensable for certain types of mines where technological process produces and rejects mud. ... end of the exploitation of the open pit "Jezero" provided a new capacity for the disposal of 4.3 million m 3 of GMS tailing within the ...

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Developing Tailings Ponds and Pit Lakes as Bioreactors and …

Here the critical difference between tailings ponds and pit lakes becomes apparent. The contact between the substrate and the water column is: • Continuous in a pond 5 m deep or less • Seasonal in a thermally layered (stratified) pond or pit lake • Very restricted in a non-mixing pit lake of 50 m deep or more

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Does Viral Photo Show a 'Toxic' Lithium Extraction Field?

Claim: Lithium leach fields, such as the one shown in a viral photograph circulating in 2022, pose hazards to the environment and human health.

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Cominco Copper Mine, Highland Valley, British Columbia

The Valley pit, source of most of Highland Valley's ore, with the Lornex pit behind. Highland Valley copper/molybdenum mine is located 75km southwest of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. The Valley pit has yielded more than 1,100Mt of ore in its lifetime. Highland Valley Copper was created as a partnership between Rio Algom and Cominco …

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Tailings Ponds are the Biggest Environmental Disaster …

The waste came from a "tailings pond," an open-air pit that mines use to store the leftovers of mining things like gold, copper, and, perhaps most notably in Canada, the tar sands—the...

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Frontiers | 3D Visualization Monitoring and Early Warning System …

The mine has proven gold resource reserves of more than 300 tons and copper resource reserves of more than 5 million tons. It has a large open-pit mining site and underground mining site, as well as a large tailing pond. The Dadongbei tailing pond is in the northwest of the Zijinshan mining area.

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Lessons From the Most Toxic Open Pit Copper Mine …

The Berkeley Pit was the first open pit mine in the area and today it is the most toxic open pit copper mine in the world. And it is lethal to water birds. On November 28, 2016, 21 years after the first reported …

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Sustainability | Free Full-Text | In-Pit Disposal of Mine …

In this context, in-pit disposal of mine tailings (IPDMT) is an attractive alternative to be used as part of responsible mine closure: mines could reprocess the mine tailings and place them in an open pit as part of sustainable mine closure.

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What Is Open-Pit Mining? Definition and Environmental Impact

Open-pit mining is a type of surface mining used to extract coal, gold, and other minerals. ... About 336 acres of topsoil around Polley Lake were washed away and deposits of tailing as thick as ...

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Tailings Pond

5.5 Geochemical Characterization of Tailings Ponds. All studied tailings ponds had an average value of pH < 3.5 (ultra-acid) in surface ( Table 5.2 ). In depth, most ponds had ultra-acid pH, except San Cristobal 1a and 1b which were strongly acid (5.1–5.5). The classification of the different tailings ponds in terms of mean values of ...

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Florida Crisis Highlights a Nationwide Risk From Toxic Ponds

A pond, built atop a mound of waste from phosphorous mining, in Riverview, Fla., in December. ... While phosphogypsum tailing stacks like the one at the Piney Point site are concentrated in ...

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Visualizing the size of mine tailings

Visualizing the size of mine tailings. On January 25th, 2019, a 10-meter tall wave traveling 120 km/h, washed 10 million m3 of mining waste from the Brumadinho tailings dam over the Brazilian ...

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A resilience-based approach in managing the closure …

Mining tailing ponds are large infrastructure objects whose life cycle spans over several decades. They are indispensable for certain types of mines where technological process produces and rejects mud. They also have potential to generate risks for human …

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Use of Evaporation Ponds in the Mining Industry

The second most common use for evaporation ponds in the mining industry is for holding and reducing wastewater. Cutting the volume of water released by a hydraulic fracturing or natural gas operation by even 50% through evaporation can cut disposal costs significantly. If this can be combined with the previous use, evaporation ponds serve a ...

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Ten big holes: the world's largest open-pit mines

The Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah is the world's largest human-made excavation. Like most large open-pit mines, Bingham's walls are terraced to reduce landslide risk and enable heavy equipment to reach mineral-bearing rock. Vertical faces are called "batters," horizontal surfaces are "benches." Bingham Canyon is being continually excavated ...

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Tailings Ponds 101 | Oil Sands Magazine

Tailings ponds (or tailings storage facilities) play a critical role in storing solids from mined oil sands and managing water flows. These ponds are massive earth structures, initially constructed from overburden hauled from the mine site.

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Chevron Mining Inc., Questa Mine (Formerly Molycorp …

Chevron Mining Inc. site facilities (Site) includes the underground workings, open pit, waste rock, tailings impoundments, and the tailings pipeline. Releases of hazardous substances, including …

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(PDF) A resilience-based approach in managing the closure and

Mining tailing ponds are large infrastructure objects whose life cycle spans over several decades. They are indispensable for certain types of mines where technological process produces and ...

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Henry's Knob Site Case Study Revitalizing Mine Tailings in …

fertile soils. The site includes a 7-acre former open pit mine, tailings pond, spoils piles and remnant mine operations. In the 1950s and 1960s, Commercialores mined the site for kyanite (see text box). During the mining process, waste rock and spoils were dewatered in ponds and piles. Acid mine drainage and acid rock drainage impacted surface

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A new look at the statistics of tailings dam failures

However, after the recent catastrophic tailing dam failures in Mariana in 2015 (Fundão dam) and in Brumadinho in 2019 (Dam 1 at the Córrego do Feijão) Brazil, the situation is rapidly changing. ... Hector Mine Pit Pond, MN, USA: 2018: 0.185: 0.123: 17: 3: 29: Louyang Xiangjiang Wanji Aluminum, China: 2016: 2.000: 2.000: 45: 4: 31:

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Tailings microbial community profile and prediction of its

The oldest mine tailings basin, Basin 1 (Fig. 1a) was used to store the mine tailings from the opening of the mine until the basin was full and thus closed, in 1985.

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Technical Report: Design and Evaluation of Tailings Dams

tailings disposal is a significant part of the overall mining and milling operation at most hardrock mining projects. There are several methods used for tailings disposal. These include disposal of dry or thickened tailings in impoundments or free-standing piles, backfilling underground mine workings and open-pits,

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File:Berkeley Pit & Continental Mine & Yankee Doodle Tailings Pond

Continental Mine ores are crushed in two stages. The crushed ores are then sent to the mill, where they are ground down to the fineness of talcum powder. Flotation and lime are used in procesing. Sulfides are collected. 1% of the mined material goes to the concentrator. 99% of mined material becomes tailings.

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Methods for the disposal and storage of mine tailings

Tailing dams are mostly constructed from the locally derived soil, waste rock, overburden dump material and tailing themselves are often used in construction (Younger & Wolkersdorfer, 2004 ...

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Gold mining leaves deforested Amazon land barren for years, find …

We covered the three different zones typically found on each site: the mining pit itself; the "overburden", or pile where topsoil had been deposited; and the tailing pond, which contained ...

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Sustainability | Free Full-Text | In-Pit Disposal of Mine

In the next decades many of the old tailings storage facilities (TSFs) could be re-processed if one considers the prices of metals, new uses of metals which today are not valuable, and the application of new, more efficient metallurgical technologies. In this context, in-pit disposal of mine tailings (IPDMT) is an attractive alternative to be used as …

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Mine Tailings Disposal Methods

The modified box-cut or pit-storage mining method is one such technique. Only the overburden removed from the first cut is disposed of downs lope. Overburden from the subsequent cut is deposited into the original cut, and this backfilling process is continued in a stepwise manner. ... More elaborate tailing-pond sealing methods include: clay ...

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Amazon gold mining wipes out rainforest regeneration for years: …

Banner Image: Tailing pond at gold mining site in Mahdia, Guyana. Image by Michelle Kalamandeen 2017. Image by Michelle Kalamandeen 2017. Article published by Glenn Scherer

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Tailings Ponds 101 | Oil Sands Magazine

TAILINGS PONDS 101. Tailings ponds (or tailings storage facilities) play a critical role in storing solids from mined oil sands and managing water flows. These ponds are massive earth structures, initially constructed from overburden hauled from the mine site. Tailings ponds are normally located in a part of the lease that has little or no bitumen.

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Tailings Pond and Mine Pit Water Treatment

Tailings Ponds Treatment. Tailings ponds are used for temporary storage of waste materials left behind by the industrial mining process. These are filled with elements that are a hazardous byproduct and if not treated properly, can be toxic to the environment.

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Tailings.info In-pit tailings storage

Introduction. In-pit tailings storage, as the name suggests, is simply the process of backfilling abandoned open pit surface mines with tailings (figure 1). This method is very attractive to a mine operator as worked out voids can be filled at a fraction of the costs associated with designing, constructing and operating a conventional ...

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Tailing Pond

Tailing Pond. Mining wasteland refers to "land that cannot be reused due to mining activities destroyed and occupied, before rectified, including bare mining rock, waste soil (stone, slag) heap, coal gangue heap, tailings pond, abandoned plant and so on" (Wang, Zhang, 2015), the mining subsidence area, and various wasteland sites with potential …

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Tailings Management

Teck's Tailings Facilities. Teck actively manages 43 tailings facilities across our active and legacy mine sites. Of these, 14 are active as part of our operations and 29 are inactive or closed and no longer receiving material. We have one active upstream tailings facility and eight inactive or closed upstream facilities.

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