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 ...

The catastrophic failure at the Sino Metals’ tailings dam in Chambishi, Zambia, on 18 February 2025 is a major setback to global efforts to prevent such disasters and an ominous sign in a world ...

The B.C. government has issued a consent order 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 history.

2:11 Mt. Polley mine reopens after tailings pond spill 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 ...

Ecuador's Ministry of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources said it would ban the use of so-called upstream tailings dams Ecuador unveiled new, tighter regulations for the design and ...

And in December 2024, 15 federal Fisheries Act charges were laid against the mine's parent company, Imperial Metals Corp., and two other firms over the collapse of the tailings pond dam ...

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 ...