• Thumbnail for Tailings
    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...
    29 KB (4,213 words) - 14:33, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tailings dam
    gangue. Tailings can be liquid, solid, or a slurry of fine particles, and are usually highly toxic and potentially radioactive. Solid tailings are often...
    10 KB (1,086 words) - 13:42, 18 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Moab uranium mill tailings pile
    a pile of mine tailings that was over 90 ft (27 m) tall at its highest point. It is believed that pollutants from the waste tailings are leaching into...
    11 KB (1,373 words) - 21:04, 17 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tailings dam failure
    failure 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...
    30 KB (2,097 words) - 13:35, 25 April 2024
  • Uranium tailings or uranium tails are a radioactive waste byproduct (tailings) of conventional uranium mining and uranium enrichment. They contain the...
    4 KB (507 words) - 20:51, 17 July 2023
  • Awards Best Short Form Drama - winner The Tailings at IMDb McManus, Bridget (26 March 2021), "The Tailings: tragic murder mystery in historic Tasmanian...
    4 KB (261 words) - 00:47, 7 February 2024
  • a dam is a barrier that impounds water or underground streams, hence tailings dams are relegated to a separate list. Data on volume of structure is not...
    7 KB (318 words) - 19:51, 19 August 2024
  • Look up tailing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tailing may refer to: Tailings, the material left over after the extraction of ore from its host material...
    471 bytes (98 words) - 00:11, 15 July 2021
  • Thumbnail for Syncrude Tailings Dam
    McMurray. 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...
    13 KB (1,428 words) - 17:06, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tail
    The tail is the elongated section at the rear (anal) end of a bilaterian animal's body; in general, the term refers to a distinct, flexible appendage extending...
    13 KB (1,396 words) - 07:21, 27 August 2024
  • of kimberlite tailings in road works, the Central Road Research Institute engaged in a detailed laboratory study. Kimberlite tailings were characterized...
    5 KB (741 words) - 18:31, 9 January 2021
  • Thumbnail for Oil sands tailings ponds (Canada)
    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...
    62 KB (6,906 words) - 06:12, 3 September 2024
  • 711551; 25.396614 The Kolwezi tailings project (French: Projet de résidus de Kolwezi) also known as the Roan Tailings Reclamation (RTR; Récupération...
    8 KB (951 words) - 21:50, 13 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Environmental impact of mining
    bitumen. Tailings are commonly stored in tailings ponds made from naturally existing valleys or large engineered dams and dyke systems. Tailings ponds can...
    87 KB (10,666 words) - 01:34, 3 September 2024
  • and tailings also pollute the region with wind-blown dust. The Kolwezi Tailings Project is an attempt to recover additional metal from these tailings. The...
    9 KB (825 words) - 20:16, 12 January 2024
  • as tailing pond water and greenhouse gases. One of the major challenges facing COSIA is the treatment of oil sands tailings pond water. "Tailings are...
    18 KB (1,790 words) - 19:28, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mount Polley mine
    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...
    45 KB (5,237 words) - 22:13, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Environmental impact of iron ore mining
    iron ore tailings include Ba, Cr, Cd, Co, Cu, Fe, Mn, Pb, Ni, and Zn. It is estimated that nearly 32% of iron ore extracted ends up as tailings. Every year...
    26 KB (3,180 words) - 16:45, 16 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Baogang Tailings Dam
    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...
    6 KB (497 words) - 00:34, 2 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Iron ore
    separated during the beneficiation process and is removed as tailings. Taconite tailings are mostly the mineral quartz, which is chemically inert. This...
    54 KB (7,031 words) - 04:03, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dam
    Dam (section Tailings dam)
    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...
    92 KB (11,127 words) - 08:45, 30 August 2024
  • applications it is the right tail of the distribution that is of interest, but a distribution may have a heavy left tail, or both tails may be heavy....
    19 KB (2,705 words) - 14:30, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Teghut mine
    buildings, with beginning of tailings dump on the lower right Construction of tailings dump Construction of massive tailings dump with Teghut village in...
    16 KB (1,121 words) - 05:47, 18 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Dam failure
    mine-tailings spill, consultant says". Archived from the original on 2018-05-06. Retrieved 2017-12-28. "Design failure caused Mount Polley tailings breach...
    56 KB (1,896 words) - 11:00, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action
    Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project was created by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) to monitor the cleanup of uranium mill tailings,...
    11 KB (1,355 words) - 15:38, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act
    who owned them. Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Uranium mining Laws We Use (Summaries):1978 - Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act(42 USC...
    7 KB (516 words) - 19:54, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hematite
    in the waste tailings of iron mines. A recently developed process, magnetation, uses magnets to glean waste hematite from old mine tailings in Minnesota's...
    23 KB (2,321 words) - 17:12, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Merriespruit tailings dam disaster
    The Merriespruit tailings dam disaster occurred on the night of 22 February 1994 when a tailings dam failed and flooded the suburb of Merriespruit, Virginia...
    8 KB (997 words) - 22:48, 19 August 2024
  • Tailly may refer to the following places in France: Tailly, Ardennes, a commune in the department of Ardennes Tailly, Côte-d'Or, a commune in the department...
    257 bytes (72 words) - 17:51, 4 April 2020
  • Marcopper mining disaster (category Tailings dam failures)
    site. Mine tailings from the Mt. Tapian site were discharged into Calancan Bay. It is estimated that 84 million metric tons of mine tailings were discharged...
    14 KB (1,604 words) - 05:31, 19 March 2024