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 widespread environmental damage.

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.

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 ...

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.

PATAGONIA, AZ — Officials promise safety with a southern Arizona mine that is on track to start ... prior mines and is using lined, dry-stack tailings. While the majority of the project sits ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Brumadinho tailings dam collapse, at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine, which killed 272 people in Brazil in January 2019, brought to the fore just how catastrophic it can be if tailings dams ...

In the case of Copper Mountain, two massive dams hold back the mine’s tailings from flowing to downstream communities. Advertising For the more than 150 years since colonization, the Columbia ...

Dr Emma Gagen (Director, Data & Research) and Dr Sally Innis (Manager), ICMM, lay out key principles for optimising closure outcomes from tailings storage facilities to create lasting social, economic ...

There’s more than $100 million of established infrastructure on the site, and the mine produced 25,000 ounces of gold at an all-in sustaining cost of $2,876 per ounce. The deal comes after ...