Platinum mines produce large amounts of inorganic tailings containing high levels of metals which are disposed of on tailings disposal facilities (TDFs) and there is no information available on their possible effects on the surrounding terrestrial environment. ...

This handbook addresses the theme of Tailings Management in the Leading Practice Sustainable Development Program. The aims of the program are to identify the key issues affecting sustainable development in the mining industry and provide information and case ...

This paper describes characteristics of tailings ponds, highlighting situations and events that weaken such facilities, and provides a method for calculating the destructive capacity of tailings flow slides from failed facilities.

Four different scales of observation were used to evaluate the potential effects of a fluvial tailings deposit on water quality along the flood plain of the upper Arkansas River south of Leadville, Colorado.

The dissolution of metals from various metal-mine tailings has been studied through a series of submerged tailings batch tests at U.S. Bureau of Mines laboratories. Tailings selected for this study included both reactive and benign tailings.

During the latter half of the 1970's the attention of the public, regulatory authorities and industry focused on the environmental impact of uranium and other mine wastes. This focus resulted in the intense evaluation of existing mine waste disposal methods ...