Reclaiming and regenerating environments affected by mining tailings requires greater financing and innovation.

A First Nation in B.C. has filed a legal challenge over the plan to allow the Mount Polley mine to raise its tailings dam a decade after a similar storage site at the mine gave way, creating one ...

And in December 2024, 15 federal Fisheries Act charges were laid against the mine's parent company, Imperial Metals Corp., and two other firms over the collapse of the tailings pond dam ...

2:11 Mt. Polley mine reopens after tailings pond spill The British Columbia government is allowing the height of the Mount Polley tailings dam to be raised an extra four metres, a decade after a ...

While mining companies try to capitalise on the increased demand for critical minerals, such as lithium and nickel, needed to ...

The B.C. government has issued a consent order to Mount Polley Mining Corp. to raise a tailings pond dam by four metres at the site of one of the largest environmental disasters in provincial history.

The B.C. government has issued a consent order to Mount Polley Mining Corp. to raise a tailings pond dam by four metres at the site of one of the largest environmental disasters in provincial history.

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia First Nation has filed a legal challenge over the plan to allow the Mount Polley mine to raise its tailings dam a decade after a similar storage site at the mine ...

Rhonda Phillips noted that the mining company is also seeking to further expand operations, which would result in a tailings dam 13 metres higher than the existing one. “Xatśūll will continue ...

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward The tailings dam at the open-pit gold and copper mine in B.C.’s Cariboo region gave way in August 2014, spilling mine waste into nearby waterways and causing ...