Sentences with phrase «polley tailings»

Early in 2015, he was forced to extend another $ 30 - million loan to Imperial Metals Corp., in which he is the company's largest shareholder, to help with the cleanup after a tailings dam burst at its Mount Polley mine in 2014.

He also said that the tailings, which are moved from the mine in a high - lying area by a river system to a cordoned - off area in lowlands, were benign.

On Tuesday, the company said the environment ministry wants it to change the way it manages the disposal of mine waste, or tailings, at the world's second - biggest copper mine.

«We had an agreement with the government that over the life of the mine, we would retain 50 percent of the tailings on land.

Instead of exposing engineers to chemical hazards, Clearpath's Kingfisher robot measures tailings on its own.

Norbert Morgenstern, a geotechnical engineering professor that presented the results, said liquefaction occurred because sand in the tailings dam was «loose, uncompacted and saturated.»

The oilsands industry has made important strides in recent years at cleaning up tailings ponds and reducing its fresh water use.

«We would agree that Alberta's historic focus on maximizing oilsands production... rather than optimizing production on the highest quality ore may be having unnecessary environmental impacts on things like greenhouse gas intensity and tailings production and lowering returns to Albertans as the owners of the resource,» said Simon Dyer of the Pembina Institute, a clean energy think - tank.

«We said we'd be the first in the industry to reclaim a tailings pond, and we delivered.»

As time went on, though, the tailings did not settle, bond and dry out as expected.

In other words, most current and future expansion in the oilsands will be in situ projects, and these will not be encumbered by two of the three biggest knocks against the oilsands: radical surface disruption and tailings ponds.

If hoary giant Suncor can green yesteryear's tailings ponds, though, change on a grand scale is possible — perhaps sooner than we think.

The low - lying basin was meant to capture the tailings, mostly sand and clay but also some toxic chemicals left over after removing most of the bitumen, or tarry oil, from the ore.

This time the company dredged up the stubborn mature fine tailings after just three years of settling in the pond, added a polymer and pumped it onto a sloping beach to dry — which it now did, to a chunky clay, in a matter of weeks.

Attacking tailings accumulated over that entire period, Suncor has reclaimed its first pond, is working on another two and has five more it plans to drain over the next two decades, expecting to reduce the surface area of its tailings ponds by about 80 %.

More than any other image, it is toxic tailings that sells the message of the oilsands as a «dirty» source of oil.

The mixture costs about five times more than cyanide, but can be used many times over, reducing the environmental footprint with no water effluents, off - gassing or issues with cyanide - treated tailings, said Nelson.

A court ruling this year against Syncrude Canada in the 2008 death of 1,600 waterfowl threw the existence of tailings ponds into a legal grey area that could expose mine operators to future lawsuits.

The huge ramp - up in oilsands production over the past decade — before the industry had worked out environmental bugs such as tailings disposal — helped environmentalists paint a bull's - eye on the industry's back, says Lauerman.

Junior miner Red 5 has suspended milling operations at its Siana gold mine in the Philippines after its damaged tailings dam was deemed unrecoverable.

«Your oil is really dirty», they say, flashing National Geographic photographs of birds and bitumen - filled tailings ponds.

A Pembina Institute study from 2009 estimated the costs to reclaim what was then 686 square miles of oil sands developments and 170 square miles of tailings ponds would run as high as $ 15 billion.

Work on the PFS included an options analysis looking at alternatives to several aspects of the Preliminary Economic Assessment, including but not limited to dry stack tailings and the addition of a flotation circuit.

There will also be lots of jobs in trying to clean up the tailings ponds and despoiled landscape of the Athabasca.

I believe Alberta citizens are victims as they will be dealing with abandoned wells, tailings ponds and massive environmental degradation for decades and the industry will not be paying those bills!

The cost of reclaiming over 300,000 oil and gas wells in Alberta likely exceeds $ 70 billion, and the cost of cleaning up the toxic tailings ponds and other damage at the oil sands could reach similar levels.

Re-vegetation of unused open areas and seeding accessible areas of tailings storage facilities with annual grasses

Approximately 90 % of excavated seabed would be returned to the ocean floor along with tailings, creating a sediment plume approximately 1000 square kilometres in size.

That mine, or the dam holding back tailings and all of the liquids...

«Premier Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals briefly swooped into Likely several days after the tailings pond failure assuring the town everything was all right, but then disappeared as the bad news rolled in,» said New Democrat leader John Horgan.

By: Dylan Slater 8th July 2016 Mine development and construction company Fraser Alexander has concluded a contract for platinum group metals (PGM) miner Tharisa Minerals to install and commission a tailings storage facility at its Tharisa mine.

By: Mia Breytenbach 14th October 2016 The strong performance of the rand gold price, increasingly lower gold grades mined in deeper underground mining operations, as well as costlier labour resources and electricity, are underscoring the attractiveness and accelerating the traction of local gold tailings retreatment operations,... →

There was a mine, Samarco mine in Brazil, they had a mine tailings dam, basically it's when you have an iron ore mine or any type of mine, you're going to have some sort of place where you have mine tailings, all the reject and waste that's related to the mine.

«The tailings pond failure at Mount Polley Mine may be the worst industrial accident in B.C. I've seen in my lifetime and Premier Clark and the Liberal government need to be held accountable for their role in it,» said New Democrat leader John Horgan.

The Company uses its patented BACOX bioleaching technology to process toxic, arsenic - laden mine tailings.

And given that Minister Bill Bennett promised to resign if it was found his ministry had information about this tailings pond, I think the question has to be asked: is the minister being protected by withholding this information?»

By: Dylan Slater 16th December 2016 The signing of a memorandum of understanding to form a partnership between gold tailings retreatment company DRDGold and the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering is one of first steps in the uptake of in - sourcing research and development (R&D)... →

Fraser Alexander CEO Velile Nhlapo tells Mining Weekly about the company's latest tailings contract

«Four years later, the tailings pond dam failed, and 25 million cubic metres of effluent spilled into the watershed.

But Newcrest has recently resumed placement of mine wastes in the unaffected tailings dam at Cadia, and has won approval to use an old, nearby mine pit as a temporary tailings dam.

The premier also promised the people of Likely that she would stand «shoulder to shoulder» with them in the wake of the Mount Polley tailings pond failure.

Tailing Ponds It has been one year since a breach of a containment pond at the Obed Mine spilled 670 million litres of toxic tailings into the Athabasca River and its tributaries.

«Premier Clark's failure to deal openly and transparently with this tailings dam failure will hurt not only mining and other resource industries that drive our economy, but also the workers and communities who rely on them,» said Macdonald.

The premier claimed Imperial Metals» reclamation bond could pay for the cleanup costs, but four full days after the disaster she wasn't able to provide any facts about how much was being held in bond for tailings cleanup or when it would be used.

Production at Cadia was halted on March 9 when one of the mine's two tailings dams suffered a wall slide, and there were initially fears the New South Wales mine could be out of action for months.

VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberal government's admission that the mining ministry has been underfunded shows they are bracing for a scathing report this week on the Mount Polley tailings dam failure, said New Democrat leader John Horgan.

VICTORIA — New Democrat Leader John Horgan is calling for the resignation of Minister of Energy and Mines Bill Bennett after B.C.'s Auditor General blamed failures in his ministry for the tailings pond breach at Mount Polley.

«While we're pleased that Imperial Metals is taking steps to repair the tailings dam and get...

VICTORIA - Last week Mines Minister Bill Bennett seized on a single finding of the expert panel report on the failure of the Mount Polley Tailings Dam to explain away the B.C. Liberal government's responsibility for the significant damage to the...

VANCOUVER — The report from an expert panel of engineers confirms that the Mount Polley tailings pond failure was avoidable, but leaves British Columbians with more questions than answers, said New Democrat leader John Horgan.