A B.C. First Nation that is going to court to try to stop a mining company from raising its tailings dam is now applying for ...

Artisanal mining often occurs close to an operating mine, even to access the same deposit. In many parts of Africa, illegal ...

A First Nation in B.C. has filed a legal challenge over the plan to allow the Mount Polley mine to raise its tailings dam a decade after a similar storage site at the mine gave way, creating one ...

Five people were trapped after a tailings dam collapse on Monday morning at a dry stack facility in Lufeng city of Chuxiong Yi autonomous prefecture, Yunnan province, according to the local ...

Activists blame a tailings dam failure for triggering the collapse, pointing to recent flooding and satellite evidence of structural breaches, though IMIP officials blamed heavy rainfall.

Three tailings dams surround the mine to store the rock waste, which will exist in perpetuity. Adrienne Berchtold, an ecologist who studies mining impacts for SkeenaWild, is the study’s primary ...

VANCOUVER - A B.C. First Nation that is going to court to try to stop a mining company from raising its tailings dam is now applying for an emergency injunction to put the construction on hold.

which pose a significant risk to the management of tailings dams. SRK Consulting considers the risk that illegal artisanal miners pose in the management of tailings dams in many parts of Africa The ...

A B.C. First Nation that is going to court to try to stop a mining company from raising its tailings dam is now applying for an emergency injunction to put the construction on hold.THE CANADIAN ...