Tailings dams rank among the largest engineered structures on earth. The Syncrude Mildred Lake Tailings Dyke in Alberta, Canada, is an embankment dam...

of tailings dams and the ensuing release of toxic metals in the environment is a great concern. The standard of public reporting on tailings dam incidents...

comminution, tailings consist of a slurry of fine particles, ranging from the size of a grain of sand to a few micrometres. Mine tailings are usually produced...

There are many tailings dams on those leases. The lease that has the greatest number of tailings dams, and the largest tailings dams, is the Mildred...

man-made dams by volume of fill/structure. By general definition, a dam is a barrier that impounds water or underground streams, hence tailings dams are relegated...

2016-03-08 at the Wayback Machine Bureau of Reclamation Mount Polley mine: Ex-engineers warned tailings pond 'getting large' Floods from tailings dam failures...

Baogang Tailings Dam, also known as the Baotou Tailings Dam or Weikuang Dam, is a tailings dam in Inner Mongolia, China, on the outer ring of the city...

The Mariana dam disaster, also known as the Bento Rodrigues or Samarco dam disaster, occurred on 5 November 2015, when the Fundão tailings dam at the Germano...

material is moved to tailings dams as waste, as was the case at the Merriespruit No. 4 facility. As is typical with gold tailings in South Africa, the...

Brumadinho dam disaster occurred on 25 January 2019 when a tailings dam at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine suffered a catastrophic failure. The dam, located...

body, or by means of a drain pipe. A tailings dam is typically an earth-fill embankment dam used to store tailings, which are produced during mining operations...

wants to develop a heavy metals tailings dam in the Tarkine rainforest. The MMG's Rosebery dam requires a third tailing dam in order to continue operating...

irrigation dams to refer to the channels leading to and from high-pressure sluice gates.[citation needed] Penstocks are also used in mine tailings dam construction...

The 2022 Jagersfontein Tailings Dam Collapse was a structural failure of a mine tailings dam near Jagersfontein, located in the Free State province of...

'safe, secure'". "Owners of Jagersfontein mine dam were warned to stabilise wall - FS govt". "Tailings dam in South Africa collapses - several dead". 11...

hospitalised 40 people as well as leaving many displaced after the mine tailings dam wall failed and burst. "Jagersfontein Mine, Jagersfontein, Free State...

The Antamina Tailings Dam, also known as the Antamina Tailings Impoundment Facility, is a tailings dam located in the Huincush Ravine 55 km (34 mi) east...

The 1958 Mailuu-Suu tailings dam failure in the industrial town of Mailuu-Suu, (Kyrgyz: Майлуу-Суу), Jalal-Abad Region, southern Kyrgyzstan, caused the...

Oil sands tailings ponds are engineered dam and dyke systems used to capture oil sand tailings. Oil sand tailings contain a mixture of salts, suspended...

produced an acidic slurry of ground waste rock and fluid (tailings) that was pumped to the tailings disposal area. The breach released more than 1,100 short...

Omai gold mine tailing dam breach in Guyana, 1995 Marcopper mining disaster in the Philippines, March 1996 Doñana disaster, tailings dam breach of the...

The Val di Stava Dam collapse occurred on 19 July 1985, when two tailings dams above the village of Stava, near Tesero, Italy, failed. It resulted in...

company has had two catastrophic tailings dam failures in Brazil: Mariana, in 2015, and Brumadinho, in 2019; the Brumadinho dam disaster caused the company...

Polley mine's tailings facility experienced a dam breach and tailings spill that began 4 August 2014. The four square kilometre tailings pond spilled an...

has generated an environmental conflict, because pollution from the tailings dam and windblown particulates have contaminated rivers and killed local...

Most Reservoir is the largest sump reservoir of froth (copper mining tailings dam) in Europe, owned by KGHM Polska Miedź. The name of the reservoir comes...

found that the tailings repository at the Mary Kathleen site has been subject to seepage of radioactive waters from both the toe of the dam and the surface...

northern zone near Magna, Utah, the extensive southern tailings pond has been collecting the tailings since the mine first started mining production. Kennecott...

Coal Impoundment, also known as the Brushy Fork Coal Sludge Dam, is a large tailings dam on the Brushy Fork near Marfork in western Raleigh County of...

The 1971 Certej dam failure was a flood due to the failure of a tailings dam at the Certej mine which led to the death of 89 people. It occurred on 30...