tailings

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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

Miles and miles of refineries and their stinking tailings ponds, adjacent to beach resorts that run on desalination plants.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

They examined levels of cadmium, chromium, copper, nickel, and lead, metals linked to iron oxides, which are the primary component of the tailings.

From Science Daily • Feb. 17, 2026

Teck said it produced 104,100 metric tons of copper compared with 114,500 tons a year ago, as a continuing tailings management problem at its Quebrada Blanca mine in Chile constrained output.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

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