Sentence examples for tailings lake from inspiring English sources

Communities living around the Bayan-Obo mining area in Inner Mongolia have had their crops, health and water supply ruined by a large, poorly maintained tailings lake.

That hole isn't going to turn back into a piece of land, and that tailings lake isn't going to turn back into a natural lake".

In May 2012, the Peruvian government declared the area around the tailings lakes to be in a state of environmental emergency, and allocated $20 million for health programs to mitigate lead poisoning, which is common, particularly among children.

Arsenopyrite was the predominant As species in most samples, including subaqueous tailings from lake and pond sites (65.4 ± 8.5%), sediments collected at the water line (73.5 ± 31%); and an arsenopyrite-rich ore specimen (97-LCD1; 96 ± 10%).

Figure 3 Variance scatterplots of PCA results for Group 1 (ore, tailings, and Lost Lake sediments; top panel) and Group 2 (microbial mats/flocs; bottom panel), illustrating their utility as model-independent means of examining spectral variance.

Just now people are starting to return to that area, but even then we were just told that another smaller mine up the mountain is leaking tailings into the lake as we speak".

The administration's desire is for the Supreme Court to allow the mining industry the right to dump mine tailings into rivers, lakes and streams.

In the 1920s, the mining corporation started dumping tailings into nearby lakes, which remain untreated and open to the air above and the aquifer below.

Spent water used in oil sands projects is placed in lake-size tailings ponds, one of which killed about 500 migrating birds in April.

These findings provide important insight on the ability to sequester soft tailings in an end pit lake, and offer a foundation for future research on the development of end pit lakes as an oil sands reclamation strategy.

Apparently created by damming a river and flooding what was once farm land, the lake is a "tailings pond":  a dumping ground for waste byproducts.