Sentences with phrase «with tailings»

I expected black, dead land filled with tailings but instead found lush hills and thick copses of trees turning gold and red, with large birds cartwheeling overhead.

«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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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 solution reduces the risk with wet tailings impoundment facilities and deposits them in a more environment - friendly way.

At one point, the province was left with just one geotechnical engineer and emails released through freedom of information requests showed that staff within the environment ministry had raised warnings that low staffing levels were leading to increased risks, citing tailings pond inspections as a particular area of concern.

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).

Wirlu - murra has signed a contract with Viento, also in joint venture with Eastern Guruma, to build a tailings storage facility for the Solomon project.

Iluka Resources has opted to push ahead with its $ 425 million takeover of mineral sands rival Sierra Rutile despite identifying issues with two of the London - listed company's tailings dams.

Iluka Resources will push ahead with its takeover of Sierra Rutile despite identifying issues with two tailings dams.

While the market appeared concerned by last week's announcement about the tailings dams, with shares in Iluka dropping 22 cents or 3.4 per cent to $ 6.28 per share on the news, Mr Hodge said he was confident Iluka had resolved the concerns about the dams.

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.

Of course, there will still be by - products — such as the residual ore, or tailings, from the mining and separation as well as calcium carbonate, magnesium carbonate and magnesium hydroxide from the chemical process, along with that pesky thorium.

Conventional asphalt works fine, but Kjellberg is working with the Natural Resources Research Institute in Duluth to make a microwave - specific mix from recycled shingles and taconite tailings, especially since improved oil - refining technology is reducing asphalt supplies.

Floodwaters may also be contaminated with toxic waste washed from tailings left by gold and silver mining, says Linda Figueroa, a wastewater engineer at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden.

Whether the uranium is stripped out of an open pit like the Ranger mine in Australia, removed from deep underground like McArthur River or chemically leached from its rocky home as at the Smith Ranch - Highland mine in Wyoming (the largest mine in the U.S.), yellowcake is the end product, along with a heap of radioactive tailings and, often, contaminated water.

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

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.

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.

The Kamgold staff in attendance at this meeting was not familiar with the either the tailings facility design and construction specifications, or reclamation plans and financial assurance commitments that the exchange participants sought to discuss.

Plus the tar sands operations have gigantic tailings and wastewater ponds which are loaded with various types of petrochemicals.

For two decades, Burtynsky's environmentally conscious photographs have grown from picturing quiet, seemingly benign hillsides with houses and dogs to the flagrantly poisonous, in the red river tailings of Sudbury, Ontario.»

Now in an expanded and redesigned version, the volume is true to the format of the first issue, featuring the original essay by Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, and with the images divided into three chapters, namely The Witwatersrand: a Time and Tailings, Shaftsinking, and Mining Men.

The title, «Blue asbestos fibers on a tailings dump at the Owendale Asbestos Mine, Postmasburg District, Northern Cape, October 26, 2002» explains the desolation as you realize with horror the full impact such mining must have had.

A centerpiece of this show, Composting in the Pentagon with Worm Tailings (2017), displays dirt (or rather compost made from coffee grounds from a nearby café) as process and solution; we are invited to turn the dirt with a shovel.

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?

And yes, the patriotic coal companies never seem to mention the despoilation of thousands of square miles of Appalachia with strip mines and millions of cubic yards of tailings dumped into streams and watersheds.

The potential exists at one particular Arizona mine with 10,000 acres of waste rock and tailings to produce up to 1 gigawatt of combined solar and wind power, about as much as an average coal - fired power plant, said Blair Loftis, national director of alternative and renewable energy for Kleinfelder, a large engineering consultant firm.

I may add that these two companies (Lihir and Ramu Nickel) and its consultants have argued before the Court that, because the site is located in a seismically active and high rainfall zone with sharp topography, a conventional land - based tailings storage facility (TSF) is too expensive and environmentally unsuitable.

It produces similar environmental impacts, with the added hazard that uranium mine tailings are radioactive.

Their migration route intersects with areas leased to and developed by oil sands companies, including the surface mineable area and its associated facilities, mine pits and tailings ponds.

With the support of New Caledonia's dominant ruling party, the RPCR (Rassemblement Pour le Caledonie dans la Republique), the International Nickel Company of Canada made plans to dig up large portions of the reef for calcium carbonate to neutralize its acidic tailings.

Oil - sands production emits roughly three times the carbon dioxide of conventional light - oil production and the strip - mining operations involved destroy the landscape in northern Alberta, creating large tailings ponds filled with toxic wastewater.

However, the ERCB notes that all operators have committed significant resources towards managing their tailings in accordance with the objectives of Directive 074, made material progress in developing and implementing fines capture technologies as part of their tailings management plans...

The elephant in the room has always been the effluent, Tailings Ponds, which grow in conjunction with the processing of the Bitumen.