Sentence examples for tailings dust from inspiring English sources

Yellowknife's Giant Mine, closed in 2004, houses 237,000 tonnes of frozen arsenic trioxide and stills causes massive problems, with toxic tailings dust just blowing away from time to time.

Yellowknife's Giant Mine, closed in 2004, houses 237,000 tons of frozen arsenic trioxide and stills causes massive problems, with toxic tailings dust just blowing away from time to time.

Especially near the U mill tailings, U dust particles can be easily washed out by precipitation into surface water.

Tailings samples and dust collected from a crusher located above ground from a diamond mine near anthophyllite and chrysotile deposits contained tremolite-actinolite series fibres.

On the other hand, settlements downwind from pyrite-containing mine tailings might be inhaling dust with oxidized pyrite.

They pump a continuous slurry of sediment and river water over mats that trap minute fractions of gold-enriched dust, discharging their tailings back into the river.

At the most polluted sites even the dust blown from tailings can be dangerous.Yet the main alternative, burning waste, can be just as bad, both for people and for the planet.

Metal content was measured in mine tailings, efflorescent salts, soils, road dust, and residential soils to investigate contamination.

This work presents a model that can be used to forecast the transport and deposition of windblown dust from mine tailings impoundments.

A preliminary verification of the model was conducted using topsoil measurements of lead and arsenic as tracers of windblown dust from the tailings impoundment.

She remembers seeing thick clouds of dust from the Asarco tailings pile -- today, a literal mountain of mining waste.