Tailings Storage - Case Studies

Europe:

Cleveland Potash Ltd, Boulby Mine. Loftus, UK(Backfill of underground workings)

Sillamae Metal and Chemical Production Plant, Estonia (Uranium tailings polluting the Baltic Sea)

Stava, Nr. Trento, Italy (Impoundment failure with a 268 death toll)

Los Frailes Tailings Dam Failure, Nr Sevilla, Spain (Fairly Recent Impoundment Failure)

Lisheen Mine, County Tipperary, Ireland (Europes most advanced tailings facility)

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Africa:

Mufulira Mine, Zambia (Underground breach of a tailings dam)

Merriespruit Tailings Dam Failure, Virginia, South Africa (Impoundment failure)

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North America & Canada:

Highland Valley Copper Mine, Nr. Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada (Good example of remediation)

Kidd Creek Metallurgy Plant, Timmins, Ontario, Canada (First surface Central Thickened Disposal (CTD) site)

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South America:

Hydraulic Mining of Tailings, Disputada Mine, Chile (relocation and reprocessing of Copper tailings)

Dry stacking of tailings, La Coipa, Chile (A large dry stack facility in Chile)

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Russia:

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Australasia:

Kaltails Project, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia (hydraulic mining of tailings to remove old impoundments away from the town and to reprocess the tailings for gold)

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South Asia:

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