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NDiarel Baidy Ba, Radhia Souissi, Faouzi Manai, Imad Khalil Taviche, Bochra Bejaoui, Mohamed Abdallahi Bagga and Fouad Souissi
Since 2004, the processing of the iron oxide?copper?gold (IOCG) ore of Guelb Moghrein, Akjoujt, Mauritania, has resulted in the generation of approximately 40 million tons of mine tailings. The storage of these tailings poses significant environmental ch...
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Morag Hunter, D. H. Nimalika Perera, Eustace P. G. Barnes, Hugo V. Lepage, Elias Escobedo-Pacheco, Noorhayati Idros, David Arvidsson-Shukur, Peter J. Newton, Luis de los Santos Valladares, Patrick A. Byrne and Crispin H. W. Barnes
The expansion of copper mining on the hyper-arid pacific slope of Southern Peru has precipitated growing concern for scarce water resources in the region. Located in the headwaters of the Torata river, in the department of Moquegua, the Cuajone mine, own...
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W. Charles Kerfoot, Gary Swain, Luis M. Verissimo, Erin Johnston, Carol A. MacLennan, Daniel Schneider and Noel R. Urban
Over a century ago, copper mills on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Lake Superior sluiced 64 million metric tonnes (MMT) of tailings into coastal waters, creating a metal-rich ?halo?. Here we show that relatively small discharges can spread widely in time and ...
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María Luisa Álvarez, Ana Méndez, Roberto Rodríguez-Pacheco, Jorge Paz-Ferreiro and Gabriel Gascó
In Spain, there are more than 733 million tons of tailings stored in tailing dams. In addition, there is an undetermined volume of oxidized metal mineral dumps for which an application has not been found. We consider that the study of alternative and env...
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Nuno Cristelo, João Coelho, Mafalda Oliveira, Nilo Cesar Consoli, Ángel Palomo and Ana Fernández-Jiménez
Mine tailings (MT) could represent a step forward in terms of the quality of the aggregates usually used in civil engineering applications, mostly due to its high density. The Portuguese Neves Corvo copper mine, owned by the Lundin Mining Corporation, pr...
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