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Tailings
Tailings: - Residue of raw material or waste separated out during the processing of crops or mineral ores. [Environmental Protection Agency] News archive for Tailings:: |
Salt Lake Tribune,By Thomas Burr Posted: 11:07 AM- WASHINGTON - About 16 million tons of mill tailings abutting the Colorado River near Moab will be moved by rail to a
NEWMONT'S INDONESIAN MINE ENVIRONMENTAL-PERFORMANCE - 05 Aug 2008
Resource Investor,Its purpose is to monitor and assess the marine environment adjacent to mine tailings placed in Buyat Bay, North Sulawesi for a further 10 years.
Two lakes to become waste dumps - 05 Aug 2008
Northern News Services (subscription),IKALUKTUTIAK/QAMANITTUAQ - Two of Nunavut's lakes have received federal approval to be turned into tailings ponds for gold mining projects in the territory.
Arsenic and old mines: how to fix bad drinking water - 05 Aug 2008
The Union of Grass Valley,Processing ore to extract gold and silver from the mine produced finely ground tailings containing naturally occurring arsenic and other trace metals,
Hecla Reports Second Quarter Results; Increases Silver Production 60% - 05 Aug 2008
FOXBusinessCapital expenditures during the second quarter at Greens Creek totaled $10.2 million and were targeted primarily at tailings facility expansion,
Copper Mountain Closes Purchase of Tailing Management Facility ... - 05 Aug 2008
istockAnalyst.com,Mr. O'Rourke, Chief Executive Officer of Copper Mountain stated: 'this acquisition of securing the tailings management facility area is another significant
KimCor sells 10023.55 carats of diamonds - 05 Aug 2008
Mineweb,Martyn Churchouse, CEO of KimCor commented "These sales results are encouraging particularly for the SMI4 tailings operation, where the excellent
DiamondCorp set to rock at Lace diamond mine - 05 Aug 2008
Mineweb,Loudon said the company was achieving prices of $64/carat for the small diamonds left behind in its tailings and it was on this basis that consultants
Denison Awarded Care and Maintenance Contract at the Faro Mine ... - 05 Aug 2008
MarketWatchIts goal is to lead the industry in cost effective decommissioning solutions to mine closure issues, focusing on infrastructure, tailings rehabilitation,
Millstream Negotiates Return of 10% Net Profit Interest In Potter ... - Aug 1, 2008
MarketWatchThe agreement contemplates the return of 5% or one half (1/2) of the 10% Potter tailings NPI through the issuance from its treasury of 750000 common shares
Greenpeace posts banner at Syncrude tailings pond - Jul 25, 2008
Edmonton Sun,The protesters said they tried to block a pipe that flows into the tailings pond, about 75 km north of Fort McMurray or 525 kilometres north of Edmonton,
Corroon: Kennecott tailings panel must put safety fact-finding first - Jul 30, 2008
Salt Lake Tribune,By Jeremiah Stettler Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon says the Kennecott Tailings Committee must define itself - again - as the safety-conscious steward
LAFAYETTE PHILIPPINES TO RESUME RAPU-RAPU MINING THIS MONTH - Aug 4, 2008
Trading Markets (press release),Following about four of operations, the DENR ordered its temporary closure on findings of toxic chemical spillage from its mine tailings facilities that
Rebecca Walsh: Tailings pond safety committee caught whining - Jul 28, 2008
Salt Lake Tribune,By Rebecca Walsh So members of a committee that is supposed to review the safety of Kennecott's tailing pond let all their angst hang out last month.
Panel's key task: Image or tailings? - Jul 26, 2008
Salt Lake Tribune,By Jeremiah Stettler The committee charged with overseeing an independent investigation into the safety of Kennecott's tailings impoundment appears to have
June 2008 Quarterly Reports - Jul 30, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald,Drilling (94 holes) and sampling (482 samples) at its Mailuu-Suu Uranium Tailings Project in central Kyrgyzstan was completed during the Quarter.
Quarterly Report for the period ended 30 June 2008 - Jul 30, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald,820.9m shares 7 North Section of West Wits Pit permitted to allow for (fully diluted) gold tailings deposition [West Rand]. Major Shareholders 7 Additional
Tailings reservoir pipe burst causes water cut to Chinese city - Jul 16, 2008
Xinhua,SHENYANG, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Tap water to a city in northeast China's Liaoning Province was halted after a sluice pipe of a goldore tailings reservoir
Latin American Minerals: Samples of Artisan Tailings Indicate ... - Jul 18, 2008
FOXBusiness..."The tailings assays show that Paso Yobai not only has great exploration potential, but that the existing tailing dumps host a significant value of gold.
Furor brews as NL, feds ponder plan to dump nickel waste into lake - Jul 20, 2008
The Canadian Press,Mining giant Vale Inco intends to use Sandy Pond as a dump for mine tailings produced by its proposed $2-billion nickel-processing plant at Long Harbour.
TAILINGS EMERGENCY: Peru wants pond at Coricancha relocated - Jul 27, 2008
Canadian Mining Journal,PERU — Last Friday, July 18, the government of Peru issued a 60-day state of emergency regarding the tailings area at the Coricancha polymetallic mine 90 km
WWF pact to help miners manage tailings - Jul 24, 2008
Stabroek News,The project commenced this month and will be of a practical nature through the establishment and demonstration of tailings management facilities and
Mill tailings record keeper retires after 23 years - Jul 22, 2008
Grand Junction Free Press,By Sharon Sullivan GRAND JUNCTION — Ask Paul Oliver anything you want to know about Grand Junction and uranium mill tailings, and he’ll likely know the
Mining firm sets up tailings facility - Jul 23, 2008
Sun.Star,THE Apex Mining Corporation has put up the first ever tailings management facility in the municipality of Maco in Compostela Valley.
Peru fears Gold Hawk mine tailings rupture could pollute Lima’s ... - Jul 21, 2008
Mineweb,Peru’s Presidential Council of Minister has declared a state of emergency due to a potential tailings facility rupture, which could lead to a possible
Tailings impoundment areas site-specific, says Mining Association ... - Jul 21, 2008
Hill Times (subscription),Re: "A loophole in Fisheries Act allows government to list healthy natural water bodies as 'tailings impoundment areas,' " (by NDP MP Peter Stoffer,
Gold Hawk ordered to relocate Peruvian processing, tailings ops - Jul 21, 2008
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly,Gold Hawk has indicated previously that it was investigating ground displacement around and near the mine's tailings handling area, and temporarily
Quarterly Activities Report - Jul 27, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald,Initial sampling will focus on tailings left behind by Amdex Mining in the 1970s where small-scale operations have previously extracted tin (Plate 3).
Peru fears environmental mining disaster - Jul 19, 2008
AFPOfficials fear that the walls of a tailings dump located east of Lima in Huarochiri province might have been weakened by recent ground displacements.
MLI: Update On East Rand Joint Venture - Jul 17, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald,At the date of formation of the JV the partners believed, based on historical production, that these tailings may host uranium mineralization.
Strathmore Continues to Develop Uranium Mill Design For its ... - Jul 10, 2008
FOXBusinessSeveral potential mill and tailings site locations have been analyzed and prioritized based on a series of Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) developed
Marvelous Magna?: Committee needs to keep its priorities straight - Jul 28, 2008
Salt Lake Tribune,The Kennecott Tailings Impoundment Committee was formed by the Salt Lake County Council for a single purpose: to assure that Kennecott Copper's century-old
Alberta library users paying more in late fees than oilsands pay ... - Jul 31, 2008
Canadian Consulting Engineer (subscription) (press release),The new ERCB directive is entitled "Tailings Performance Criteria and Requirements for Oil Sands Mining Schemes." It spells out that oil sands operators not
Avalon Minerals tests Viscaria tailings dam - Jul 15, 2008
Mineweb,Auger drilling program completed to test the tailings dam at the Viscaria Project, located 4km from the 25Mt/annum Kiruna magnetite mine in Northern Sweden.
Jaguar Mining Provides Q2 Update of Operations - Aug 1, 2008
FOXBusinessDuring the initial charging and testing of the tailings facility, a leak was detected by sub-surface monitors and ramp-up was delayed.
High River Gold Releases Q2/2008 Production Results - Jul 14, 2008
MarketWatchTwo operational issues during the quarter resulted in unexpected mill down-time: tailings filter plant performance, and minor damage to the ball mill
Ottawa urged to curb mine waste in water - Jul 23, 2008
Globe and Mail,JOHN'S — The federal government should change regulations that allow mining companies to use bodies of freshwater as disposal sites for tailings from mining
Toxic tailings from the tar sands - Jul 8, 2008
Straight Goods,From Syncrude's dead ducks to tailings leaks into the Athabasca River to aerial pictures of the area, the giant tailings lakes attached to these operations
Silver Falcon Mining, Inc. (SFMI) Reports Tailing Tonnage to Be Moved - Jul 16, 2008
MarketWatchFor a total tonnage of 202000 tons of tailings. Mr. Pierre Quilliam, President, stated that "This exceeds our previous assessment and based on the results
Mine tailings pose radioactive health risk - Jul 14, 2008
Legalbrief (subscription),Nigerian environmental and health officials warned that slightly radioactive tailings found in abandoned mines in central Nigeria's Plateau state posed a
NB to protect drinking water from uranium exploration - Jul 30, 2008
Ecolog.com (subscription),You can bind it up in the tailings material and it's not very leachable that way." The biggest environmental issue is the tailings, but tailings are a
Picking through Pebble part 2 - Jul 30, 2008
Homer Tribune,Questions and trepidation regarding everything from toxins to tailings dams to the acid mining process fuel proponents of the measure to push for the more
Alta's ERCB releases oil sands tailings management directive - Jul 7, 2008
Ecolog.com (subscription),The Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) has released a draft Directive entitled Tailings Performance Criteria and Requirements for Oil Sands
Vanadium mine leak taints rivers in northwest China - Jul 23, 2008
ReutersBEIJING (Reuters) - A broken spillway from a vanadium mine in northwest China has contaminated two nearby rivers with ore tailings, forcing authorities to
Lace will be mining underground by September – DiamondCorp - Jul 30, 2008
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly,Loudon said that the kimberlite would arise initially from a satellite pipe, just west of the main kimberlite pipe, augmenting current surface tailings
Gold Hawk Expects to Restart Operations in Six to Eight Months ... - Jul 28, 2008
Market Wire (press release)The Emergency Decree issued on July 18, 2008, regarding the landslide risk in the area of the Company's tailings facilities due to the saturation irrigation
Uranium Mill Tailings Moving to Crescent Junction - Jul 7, 2008
KREX News Channel 5,Tons of mill tailings are being moved from Moab to a site closer to Grand Junction. The State Department of Energy is preparing a site in Cresent Junction
Barrick fined $25000 for 2006 tailings spill - Jul 7, 2008
The West Australian,The DEC's Environmental Enforcement Unit and Goldfields Region alleged that the company caused a spill of tailings at the facility, north of Kalgoorlie,
Silverado releases mineral resource estimates for its Ester Dome ... - Jul 31, 2008
Biloxi Sun Herald,All reclamation work on Ester Dome has been completed and the Company is working towards completion of the closure of the Grant Mill tailings pond.
Eden’s polluted legacy - Jul 29, 2008
BurlingtonFreePress.com,The tailings piles are steep-sided cones marked by deep runnels where rain and melting snow have eroded the material. “All of Belvidere Mountain drains
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