tailings

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

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

The area in Linhares, Espírito Santo, has been exposed to iron mining waste since the Fundão tailings dam collapsed in Minas Gerais in November 2015.

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

In the court papers the farmers said they had learned that the water was highly toxic only several days after the tailings dam had collapsed.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2025

Slack was the tailings of the mine, coal with too much rock in it.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam