Sentences with phrase «other tailings»

Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine Artforum International; January 1, 2018; Busta, Caroline; 377 words Jewish MuseumMarch 16 - August 5Curated by Kelly TaxterIn 1972, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, sharing a space with Gustav Metzger and Stuart Brisley, laid out an array of tinsel, tourist kitsch, and other tailings of human life lived on the floor, calling the piece Celebration?

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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.

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

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.

«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.

Her mother bore 10 other children to her father, who used to work in the diamond mines that blot the horizon outside Letlhakane with mounds of tailings.

Like hundreds of other abandoned mines in the Navajo Nation, the United States» largest Indian reservation, it looks as if it might still be in use — tailings, or waste products of uranium processing, are still piled everywhere, and the land isn't fenced off.

Here are some other top successes: destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons globally as well as local stores of DDT in Tanzania; new cooking stoves to eliminate indoor air pollution in Ghana; separating copper mine tailings from the local water supply in Chile; alternative fuels to reduce air pollution in New Delhi as well as treating arsenic in well water in West Bengal; removing lead - contaminated soil in the Dominican Republic and Russia; reducing mercury vapors from artisanal gold mining in Indonesia; and new sewage systems to clean up contaminated Suzhou Creek in Shanghai.

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

Tailings A watery by - product of oil sands processing, containing traces of oil and a host of other pollutants.

Each barrel of bitumen also generates more than 500 gallons of tailings, a liquid by - product laced with traces of bitumen and other pollutants.

With only water and no physical barrier, such as a combination of clay, rock or soil barriers as at all USA sites as well as Spanish and other European sites, an extensive root network penetrating into the tailings themselves is assured at each site.

The failure to provide an physical barrier between the tailings and water, solids, or other material leaves the tailings vulnerable to extensive penetration of the tailings by plant roots and animals as well as disturbance by freeze and thaw and ice formation and break up impacts.

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

Root / soil interaction and other biointrusion are major concerns for the TMAs since no barrier between roots and the tailings is proposed.

Authors hate paying reading fees, I know, but I don't see any other way to separate the gold the tailings.

@gbaikie: But if the uranium hexafluoride (UF6) tailings were made into uranium metal or some other compound, then it's no longer a a hazardous material.

From toxic tailings ponds that already cover 130 square kilometres, to fresh water use and the direct impacts of digging 100 metre open pit mines over thousands of square kilometres of boreal forest, the report details the environmental problems and other challenges that oil sands mining poses to northern Alberta.