Sentences with phrase «mill tailings»

A team from the University of California - Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, PNNL, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory sequenced nearly 150,000 genes from three microbial communities in samples from a subsurface aquifer at a uranium mill tailings site in Rifle, Colorado.

Results: A recently published Pacific Northwest National Laboratory study of a naturally bioreduced sediment sample from a former uranium mill tailings site reveals insights that enhance understanding of the long - term persistence of uranium in groundwater.

The second edition includes: Summary of EPA «Third Five - Year Review of the Homestake Mining Superfund site;» Summary of regulatory agency responses to 2011 NRC Office of Insp. General Report; and Summary of 2011 DOW inspection report for Anaconda Bluewater uranium mill tailings disposal site.

The field demonstration took place at a former uranium mill tailings site near Rifle, Colorado.

The potential risks from hazardous uranium mill tailings and other radioactive and hazardous wastes never go away.

Southwest Research and Information Center (SRIC) has been advocating for effective uranium mill tailings clean - up for more than 25 years.

Copy of technical paper by Research Director Paul Robinson on long - term groundwater contamination at two uranium mill tailings sites in New Mexico titled: GROUNDWATER RESTORATION LONG BEYOND CLOSURE AT THE HOMESTAKE - MILAN AND UNITED NUCLEAR - CHURCH ROCK URANIUM MILL TAILINGS PILES, NEW MEXICO, USA: FULL - SCALE PROGRAMS REQUIRING MORE THAN 20 YEARS OF ACTIVE TREATMENT (24k document) in: «Proceedings of Conference on Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology - II», Claudia Helling, et.

The «llano» (plains) where we once grazed our cattle that were brought down from the «sierra» (mountain) during the winter season is now a radioactive pile of uranium mill tailings.

The indoor radon action levels for US homes and schools were adopted in response to the use of radioactive uranium mill tailings sand in construction and soil fill for homes and schools in the western US; recognized in the 1970's as one of the first direct community health risks from the process of uranium mining.

Spain - supported by an abstract for «Remediation of Inactive Uranium Mining and Milling Sites in Spain» from the «European Union International Symposium on Remediation and Restoration of Radioactive - contaminated Sites in Europe,» October 1993 (attached as Appendix C) which describes fully decommissioned mine and mill tailings facilities.

Pipkin, like other children who played in the sandy, radioactive mill tailings, was eventually diagnosed with leukemia.

In Grand Junction, Colo., radioactive mill tailings were used as building materials, causing increased risk of lung cancer, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Not exact matches

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

MONARQUES GOLD CORPORATION (TSX - V: MQR)(OTCMKTS: MRQRF)(FRANKFURT: MR7) is pleased to announce that it has retained BBA to conduct a conceptual study for the transportation of gold - bearing material from the Wasamac deposit to an existing processing plant with an authorized tailings management facility in the region for custom milling.

The project benefits from existing infrastructure, including a mill and tailings facility, paved highway access, and access to power, water and experienced labour.

This, in turn, could provide plenty of upside to the preliminary economic assessment (PEA) recently released, which defined a project with a 1.5 - year payback period over a mine life of 6.5 years, and an upfront capital cost estimate of $ 20.1 million (utilizing existing mining, milling and tailings management infrastructure).

In 2014, Integra completed the accretive acquisition of the Sigma Mill and Mine Complex, a fully permitted 2,200 ton per day mill and tailings facility.

Milling that metric ton from McArthur, which is reported to be roughly 20 percent uranium, would then result in 440 pounds (200 kilograms) of yellowcake and 1,765 pounds (800 kilograms) of toxic, radioactive tailings, at best.

Pipkin grew up in Monticello, where a uranium mill operated for 20 years until closing in 1960, leaving a pile of tailings and contamination that became a Superfund clean - up site in 1986.

Near the international boundary where Mongolia and China meet Russia east of Lake Baikal, the operations produced approximately 5,000,000 pounds of uranium in 1995 - along with millions of tons of tailings, waste rock, mine water and mill processing water in the waste streams generated by the uranium recovery technology.

Individual local residents have verbally indicated that mine and mill waste has been transported to home sites for construction and yardfill use and selected residents report that children play, and they as children played, in the colorful tailings residue along Alamitos Creek.

Mill Tailings Pond Seepage Problem, UNC (United Nuclear Corp.) Mining and Milling Division, Church Rock, New Mexico, Operations; prepared by C. Shuey, Water & Mining Project, SRIC, November 1, 1983.