The Yankee Doodle Tailings Pond is seen on April 30 in Butte-Silver Bow County. Montana Resources says it wants to increase the facility's storage capacity by raising the elevation of the dam.

50 million litres of toxic mine waste recently flooded into Zambia’s Kafue River after the dam storing the mine waste collapsed. Mine specialists set out the issues.

50 million litres of toxic mine waste recently flooded into Zambia’s Kafue River after the dam storing the mine waste collapsed. Mine specialists set out the issues.

Contents from a tailings pond is pictured going into Quesnel Lake near the town of Likely, B.C., on August, 5, 2014. It's been about a decade since millions of cubic metres of mine waste gushed ...

VANCOUVER - A B.C. First Nation that is going to court to try to stop a mining company from raising its tailings dam is now applying for an emergency injunction ...

Two reviews led to changes in 2016 on how tailings ponds are regulated, and the government says the proposed dam height increase — from 60 to 64 metres — meets or exceeds all requirements.

Tailings dam design could change, NewRange tells tribal nations The company said it hadn't abandoned earlier plans, the focus of a Minnesota DNR review on whether the mining permit should be denied.

Certain features of the tailings dam at Vale’s Corrego do Feijao iron ore mine in Brumadinho may have been the cause of the accident that killed 270 people. Copper $ 4.914 / lb 0.32%.

The disaster near the small town of Brumadinho in southeastern Brazil occurred shortly after midday on 25 January 2019. At a nearby iron ore mine, the tailings dam—a storage area for the sludgy ...

In September 2022 a tailings dam, used for the waste from a diamond mine outside Jagersfontein in South Africa collapsed, killing one person and destroying homes, roads, railways, and electricity ...

Looking ahead. The Australian National Committee on Large Dams (ANCOLD) underscores the risks of TSF failures in Australia. It requires all high-consequence category TSFs to remain safe even after ...

Chilean energy company Guacolda Energía has finished building a 3 MW solar plant on a tailings dam in Tierra Amarilla, in the sunny Atacama region in northern Chile. The $3 million project is ...