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1Tailings — A panorama of Broken Hill, New South Wales, backed by the man made mullock (waste tailings) heaps from the Line of Lode mine (the mullock heaps are the hills that stretch across this image). Tailings, also called mine dumps, slimes, tails, leach… …
2Waste pond — A waste pond or chemical pond is a small impounded water body used for the disposal of water pollutants, and sometimes utilized as a method of recycling or decomposing toxic substances. Such waste ponds may be used for regular disposal of… …
3tailings — noun the waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; gangue, slimes …
4Uranium tailings — are a waste material of uranium mining. In mining, the raw uranium ore is brought to the surface and crushed into a fine sand. The valuable uranium bearing minerals are then mechanically removed, and the remaining radioactive sand, called uranium …
5Radioactive waste — 2007 ISO radioactivity danger logo, designed in part for long term radioactive waste depositories which might survive into a far future time in which all knowledge of the meaning of present common radiation danger symbols and signs has been lost… …
6Moab Tailings — is a uranium mill waste pond situated alongside the Colorado River, currently under the control of the U.S. Department of Energy. Locals refer to it as the Moab Tailings Pile. In 1952 Charlie Steen found the largest uranium deposit in the United… …
7Syncrude Tailings Dam — Infobox Dam dam name= Syncrude Tailings Dam caption= Syncrude Tailings Dam, enclosing tailings pond officiali name= Syncrude Tailings Dam crosses= reservoir= locale=Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada maint= Syncrude Canada Ltd. length= 11.3 miles (18 …
8Merriespruit tailings dam disaster — The Merriespruit tailings dam disaster occurred on the night of 22 February 1994 when a tailings dam failed and flooded the suburb of Merriespruit, Virginia, Free State, South Africa. Seventeen people were killed.[1] Late afternoon on the day of… …
9Low level waste — (LLW) is a term used to describe nuclear waste that does not fit into the categorical definitions for high level waste (HLW), spent nuclear fuel (SNF), transuranic waste (TRU), or certain byproduct materials known as 11e(2) wastes, such as… …
10Gold cyanidation — (also known as the cyanide process or the MacArthur Forrest process) is a metallurgical technique for extracting gold from low grade ore by converting the gold to a water soluble coordination complex. It is the most commonly used process for gold …
