AMEC Earth and Environmental, which became the new engineer of record for the facility, issued a statement that cited the ongoing investigation and inability to answer specific questions. It added, ...

A civil engineering research team has developed a new way to clean oil sands process affected water and reclaim tailings ponds in Alberta's oil sands industry. Using sunlight as a renewable energy ...

Researchers in South Korea have conducted a literature review on recorded cases of floating PV plants placed on mine pit lakes and tailings ponds, both of which are byproducts of the mining industry.

VICTORIA - The construction of a mine tailings pond on top of a sloped glacial lake weakened the foundation and was akin to loading a gun and then pulling the trigger, a report on the disaster says. A ...

Researchers from the University of Toronto – in collaboration with a group of mining firms – are using acid-loving bacteria to design new processes for recovering nickel, a critical mineral in growing ...

Officials are bringing in more pumps to drain water on a tailings pond near Salmo, B.C., after the pond's dam breached earlier this week. Now, officials with the Regional District of Central Kootenay ...

New research out of ETH Zurich suggests that certain features of the tailings dam at Vale’s Corrego do Feijao iron ore mine in Brumadinho, southeastern Brazil, may have been the cause of the burst ...

For every barrel of bitumen extracted in Alberta, about 1.5 barrels of non-recyclable tailings volume are produced. In 2019 alone, an estimated 1.5 million barrels of tailings were produced, which ...

TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – British Columbia will immediately act on seven critical recommendations of an independent panel that investigated the tailings storage facility (TSF) failure at Canadian ...

It’s too soon to determine the extent of damage and cost of repairs caused by the Aug. 4 Mount Polley Mine tailings pond failure, officials say. The blowout dumped about 2.6 million gallons of water ...