Kolontár, Hungary: In 2010, a tailings dam storing waste from bauxite mining collapsed due to heavy rain. The red toxic sludge from the dam spread over eight square km (more than three square ...

340+ people have died since 2008, communities have been ravaged, rivers contaminated, drinking water polluted, and fisheries ruined by mining tailings dam failures. Future accidents could be ...

Venetia mine environmental manager Gavin Anderson states that Venetia has audits twice a year, ... slimes dams and tailings dumps are covered with a growth medium,” he concludes.

Every mining operation produces tailings. This can be coarse, like instant coffee granules, or fine, like cocoa powder. Tailings are typically mixed with water to form a liquid slurry that can be ...

Tailings dams are embankments constructed near mines to store waste in a liquid or solid form. But 126 companies, many of them smaller, have yet to commit to the standard, leaving their ...

Recently, the world watched another mine tailings dam fail, this time in Florida. The dam at the Piney Point phosphate plant stores phosphogypsum, what remains after the processing of mined ...

The disaster near the small town of Brumadinho in southeastern Brazil occurred shortly after midday on 25 January 2019. At a nearby iron ore mine, the tailings dam—a storage area for the sludgy ...

50 million litres of toxic mine waste recently flooded into Zambia’s Kafue River after the dam storing the mine waste collapsed. Mine specialists set out the issues.

50 million litres of toxic mine waste recently flooded into Zambia’s Kafue River after the dam storing the mine waste collapsed. Mine specialists set out the issues.