Sentence examples for the tailings from inspiring English sources

In addition, the tailings would not stay dry, he said.

After the tailings were opened [to move them], many people died.

"It was because of the uranium, because they uncovered the tailings," says Bekbaeva.

"The tailings management facility is one of the most visually significant impacts," Sangster conceded.

Invariably, the mercury is burned off into the atmosphere or, like the tailings, poured into waterways.

The tailings project is essentially a pile of money on the ground, waiting to be processed.

The land where the tailings were dumped is barren now: not a single blade of grass grows here.

Ms. Cornacchia confirmed that the tailings would contain those substances, but at levels below the regulatory limits.

A former metallurgist, Riley said the tailings dams would "look just like paddy fields from the air".

The engineering company that designed the tailings pond had also warned that it was operating potentially beyond capacity.

Mr. Meixner said he was skeptical about the claim that no water would drain through the tailings.