tailings
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Coal ash, red mud, and mine tailings are usually treated as major waste problems.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Federal Court judge Stephen Burley described how four large open-pit mines, a railway, tailings dam, waste dumps and a stockpile were strewn across the lands of the Yindjibarndi people in Western Australia's Pilbara region.
From Barron's ● May 12, 2026
The committee’s report stated Zambia’s government ignored warnings and suppressed a probe into Sino-Metals’ tailings dam collapse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Twenty-five workers were inside the gold mine when the tailings dam - a structure which holds mining waste - burst on 25 March.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
At Minersville, I turned onto a back highway and headed through a landscape of overgrown mine tailings and rusting machinery towards Centralia, the strangest, saddest town I believe I have ever seen.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
