To address future production stability, a preliminary economic analysis on the reprocessing of zinc plant tailings has confirmed ... it as a by-product at its Kennecott Utah Copper operations ...

Rio Tinto wants to increase spending in the U.S., especially in copper, the head of the company's copper business told The ...

Toxic tailings discarded at some 10,000 abandoned mines together with those currently being produced by 200 others in operation across Canada could hide a multi-billion-dollar market opportunity ...

On Tuesday, 18 February a catastrophic failure occurred at Sino Metals’ tailings dam in Chambishi, Zambia, releasing more than 50 million litres of acidic effluent into the Mwambashi River.

With many thanks to a loyal reader for highlighting the issue, there is the sad news this morning of yet another tailings landslide. The event occurred early on Saturday morning, 22 March 2025 ...

Credit: Anglo American. Just six years on from the horrific Brumadinho disaster, it is still difficult to talk about mine tailings without recalling those events. The sudden failure of the dam at the ...

Waste not, profit much: toxic tailings in Canada could ’re-mined’ for billions of dollars in critical minerals, report says Toxic tailings discarded at some 10,000 abandoned mines together with those ...

On Sunday 16 March 2025 at about 5 am local time a major failure of a tailings dam occurred at Andavilque, in Llallagua municipality, Potosí department in Bolivia. This was a really significant ...

Matheson gold producer McEwen Mining contends there’s no cause for concern regarding its mine waste tailings storage facility that a nearby First Nation claims is causing environment harm and is a ...

This study compared the performance of different dispersants and ultrasound as pretreatments for reverse cationic flotation of goethite-rich slime tailings through sedimentation, dispersion, and ...

Over the past few years there has been a concerted industry effort to drive the responsible management of mine tailings. In January, the independent Global Tailings Management Institute was launched ...