A copper mine in British Columbia produces a metal the world needs to phase out fossil fuels. It holds promise — and danger.

Tailings — a byproduct of large-scale mining operations — could be changed “from a liability into asset” by monetizing recovered minerals and metals from current waste for use in renewable ...

BHP owns 50 per cent of Samarco, the Brazilian company that operates the iron ore mine where the tailings dam ruptured on November 5, 2015. Enough mine waste to fill 13,000 Olympic-size swimming ...

This research, of course, doesn't mean there's proof that Mntambo's niece's cerebral palsy was, without a doubt, caused by the mine tailings dams in her community. But it does confirm that there's ...

The catastrophic failure at the Sino Metals’ tailings dam in Chambishi, Zambia, on 18 February 2025 is a major setback to global efforts to prevent such disasters and an ominous sign in a world ...

This research, of course, doesn't mean there's proof that Mntambo's niece's cerebral palsy was, without a doubt, caused by the mine tailings dams in her community. But it does confirm that there's a ...

The spill happened on Feb. 18 when a tailings dam that holds acidic waste from a copper mine in the north of the country collapsed, according to investigators from the Engineering Institution of ...

A tailings dam is typically an earth-fill embankment dam used to store byproducts of mining operations after separating the ore from the unwanted minerals or rock material that are mined along ...

A lawyer has argued global mining giant BHP Group should be held liable for Brazil's worst environmental disaster 10 years ago when a dam collapse poured tons of toxic mining waste into a major ...