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At the summit, doctors, including Fort McMurray physician called for more studies on the health impacts of tailings and noted a high prevalence of rare cancers in the small Fort Chipewyan population.
Followed by two stages of regrind and cleaner magnetic separation, a further 12% of fresh plant feed is diverted to final tailings, resulting in a "magnetics only" concentrate consisting of awaruite and magnetite.
Imperial Oil’s president and CEO described the failure to alert downstream communities to toxic oilsands tailings leaks as a “communication breakdown” during his testimony on Parliament Hill on Thursday.
“I think it is time for Environment Canada to take a much more proactive role in tailings management,” he said.
It is expected to be the first potash mine internationally to leave no salt tailings at the surface, thereby reducing the water consumption by approximately half as well as significantly improving energy efficiency.
It was one of the largest tailings leaks in Alberta’s history.
Mr Bogle added: 'The mine is still in use and the main tailings pile has grown each year for the last decade, indicating continuous operations.'
Syncrude was also fined $3 million in 2010 after more than 1,600 ducks died when they landed on a tailings pond in 2008.
The Alberta Energy Regulator says it’s looking for an investigator to dig into releases of oilsands tailings and tailings-contaminated water that weren’t made public for nine months.
The company’s patented, award-winning Circular Mineral Harvesting closed-circuit rare earths extraction process eliminates the need for a tailings dam and conditions spent clays for future revegetation with native forests.
The pond the water was released from “is not related to mining, extraction or tailings processes, and contains precipitation and snow melt water," it said.
The regulator soon concluded the water had come from tailings ponds where the company stored the toxic sludge-like byproducts of bitumen mining.
The Wolfden resolution, if adopted by town voters, confirms that Wolfden intends to locate associated mining facilities — a concentrator plant, water treatment plant, dry stack tailings — in a community near the mine, but not Patten.
Source: https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/03/03/news/penobscot/wolfden-mining-resolution-vote-n6hjn1me0n/
The Yukon government is directing the owners of the Minto Mine to brace for a heavy spring melt, and to take some needed measures now to prevent toxic water from tailings ponds from spilling into the environment.
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/minto-mine-tailings-storage-capacity-1.6815869?cmp=rss
Ultramafic rocks from the project (in the form of tailings and waste rock) are being assessed for their ability to capture and store carbon.
We have also successfully ramped up the Greentech Plant without a tailings dam, which means we have 62,000 tonnes of Triple Zero Green By-product, year-to-date 100,000 tons of Triple Zero Green By-products.
What will happen if a tailings spill occurs?