Sentence examples for tailings spill from inspiring English sources

In October, two Alberta-based coal mining companies were charged over a massive 2013 tailings spill.

A Silver Standards tailings spill five decades ago into Owen Lake, Molly said, meant that "you couldn't even swim in it, you couldn't drink the water, and you couldn't eat the fish.

It was water laden with heavy metals caused by past and current mining in the area and natural acidic runoff, not cyanide-laced tailings spilled from the Summitville mine.

The mine was closed after the 1998 accident, during which a dam burst caused billions of liters of acidic mining tailings to spill, nearly causing serious ecological damage to the park.

If this happens, Atabayev fears it could wipe out at least part of the tailings pond, spilling cyanide and other chemicals into the Kumtor river, which flows into a water system that millions of people depend on for irrigation, fishing and household use.

The tailings that spilled out of the failed dams flowed downstream at a high speed.

Now, three days later, an estimated 1.3 billion gallons of contaminated tailings have spilled from the breached pond, sweeping untold volumes of waste and debris into the salmon stream and lake systems in the region and potentially threatening the Fraser River system to the west.

Although this latter site was subjected to a tailings-pond spill in 1996 and a wildfire in 1999, both of these disturbances had little effect on the macroinvertebrate communities (University of California Davis Natural Reserve System 2003; Bêche 2005).

But two years later, First Nations in Fort Chipewyan, who operate their own community-based water monitoring program, continue to say information from the government and company on what exactly was in the spilled tailings — and how much — has yet to be revealed.

Many referred to the recent spill from a tailings pond at the Mount Polley gold and copper mine in British Columbia, which they saw as a warning about potential spills in the Bristol Bay ecosystem.

These results strongly suggest that the release of tailings to floodplains should be limited or prohibited, and that all tailings should be removed from floodplains following dam spills.