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First Nation challenges B.C.'s approval to raise Mount Polley mine tailings dam
A British Columbia First Nation has filed a legal challenge over the plan to allow the Mount Polley mine to raise its ...
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Proper tailings management improves investor confidence
While mining companies try to capitalise on the increased demand for critical minerals, such as lithium and nickel, needed to ...
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Little action apparent on toxic tailings six months after Hungary red mud disaster
he added. The biggest tailings dam in the Balkans is Medet. Situated above the town of Pirdop in central Bulgaria, it contains 200 million tones of heavy metals residues. The dam was built in the ...
Columbia Basin copper mining has clean-energy promise, risks
A copper mine in British Columbia produces a metal the world needs to phase out fossil fuels. It holds promise — and danger.
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First Nation files for judicial review of Mount Polley dam enlargement
Leaders of Xatśūll First Nation say the provincial government has stepped on Aboriginal title rights and skirted ...
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Along the Kuskokwim River, Gold Mining Likely Comes at a High Price
Measured by annual average water volume, it is the ninth largest river in the United ... a 471-foot-tall tailings dam, and a 25-square-mile base of operations with processing plants for treating ...
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B.C. allows Mount Polley tailings dam to go higher, a decade after massive spill
VICTORIA — The British Columbia government is allowing the height of the Mount Polley tailings dam to be raised an extra four metres, a decade after a similar storage site burst in one of the province ...
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Updated: B.C. greenlights Mount Polley dam increase at site of major mine spill
In 2014, a dam at the Mount Polley copper ... to Mount Polley Mining Corp. to raise a tailings pond dam by four metres at the site of one of the largest environmental disasters in provincial ...
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First Nation launches challenge of B.C.'s approval to raise Mount Polley mine dam
A British Columbia First Nation has filed a legal challenge over the plan to allow the Mount Polley mine to raise its ...
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First Nation files for judicial review of Mount Polley dam enlargement
Polley Lake, Hazeltine Creek and Quesnel Lake all faced widespread and long-lasting environmental damages in what would become North America’s biggest ... result in a tailings dam 13 metres ...