Sentences with phrase «tailings piles»

The restoration program includes an extensive array of collection («extraction») and injection well lines, collections drains and trenches in and around the largely reclaimed tailings piles and lined evaporation ponds as shown on Figure 1 to this paper.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The two piles in combination contain as much tailings as the Denison TMAs, demonstrating how outlandish the 20 years figure is compared to the real world.

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.

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.

Note the tailings pond behind the huge yellow piles of sulphur, a by - product of bitumen upgrading.