The Brumadinho disaster brought the issue of tailings and its impact on communities to light. What is the outlook for ...

A B.C. mining company has been penalized more than $54,000 after it failed to prevent contaminated wastewater from ...

Mine tailings are drowned in water to keep ... She cancelled the penalties connected to the tailings pond and significantly dropped the penalties initially levied against the company for economic ...

Caleb Uerling, a fisheries biologist for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, believes the high conductivity of treated Berkeley ...

The toxic legacy of Cold War uranium mining and milling has shattered lives, destroyed homes and created a pollution problem for an entire region.

A $9,000 fine levied against a coal company for releasing mine-contaminated wastewater into a northwestern Alberta river is a weak reprimand for the toxic leak, critics say.CST Canada Coal Limited was ...

Kirby emphasized that modern uranium mining techniques have eliminated the need for tailings ponds—large above-ground waste storage areas—by employing more mechanized and remotely operated ...

The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (Provincial Board) of Palawan has passed on March 5 an ordinance declaring a 50-year moratorium on all new and pending applications for all extractive activities in the ...

Authorities and environmentalists in Zambia fear the long-term impact of an acid spill at a Chinese-owned mine that ...

The release occurred March 4, 2023, from the open pit and underground mine. A valve in the site's wastewater system froze, causing a tailings pond to overflow, leaving a sheen across the river's ...