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  Sand Mining In Cambodia And Dams Upstream Threaten Mekong River

  2020218 · The No. 1 threat: sand mining. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: In Southeast Asia, the famed Mekong River is under threat from upstream dams built by China. Those dams are reducing the flow of water and ...

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  Visualizing the size of mine tailings - MINING.COM

  2021730 · Static liquefaction has been associated with numerous recent failures of tailings storage facilities (TSFs) around the world (e.g., the 2019 Brumadinho failure). These failures lead to devastating consequences for the environment and civil infrastructure as well as the loss of human lives. In this study, we present trends for the mechanical response …

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  What are Tailings - Society for Mining, Metallurgy

  Tailings are a by-product of mining. After ore containing an economically-recoverable commodity is mined from the earth, that commodity is extracted in a processing plant or mill. After the commodity of value is extracted from the ore material, the resultant waste stream is termed “tailings”. Typically, mill tailings range from sand to silt ...

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  Ergo - DRDGOLD

  6  · Operation overview. Ergo Mining Proprietary Limited (Ergo), a major surface gold tailings retreatment operation extending from central Johannesburg to Ekurhuleni in the east. Sand is reclaimed using mechanical front-end loaders, re-pulped with water and pumped to the plant. The surface sources have generally undergone a complex depositional ...

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  Trace element contaminants associated with historic gold mining …

  2021213 · As a historic gold mining area, the City of Benoni has numerous water bodies close to major tailings dams and mine dumps. Here we assess spatial patterns in the sediment geochemistry of five dams and four natural pans within a 5-km radius of the core mining area to determine the degree of contamination7 by mining-associated pollutants. …

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  Extraction of Gold from Sands and Slimes Tailings Dump from Mazowe Mine ...

  2017210 · Abstract. The Mazowe Gold Mine is managed by Metallon Gold (Zimbabwe) and is situated in the west-central part of the Harare greenstone belt. Orebodies here generally comprise shear zones which are in-filled with gold-bearing sulphides and quartz. The mineralised zones are up to 1 m in width, have average grades of 4–5 g/t.

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  Radionuclides and Radiation Exposure in Mine Sites

  2023526 · The gold mining in the goldfields of the Witwatersrand Basin of South Africa has resulted in numerous tailing dams that have high concentrations of NORM bearing residue. The aim of this study was to evaluate the radioactivity levels in tailing dams, soils and rocks, and the consequential radiological exposure to the public in the gold mining ...

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  Some developments and new insights for environmental

  2020101 · Mount Polley gold and copper mine tailings dam, Canada: Released 25 million m 3 of tailings, the ecological environment was seriously polluted: 42: 2015: Fundão iron mine tailings dam, Brazil: 19 people died, released about 60 million m 3 of tailings and destroyed 158 houses: 43: 2017:

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  About Tailings Fact Sheet - Ballarat Gold Mine

  What are tAILingS. Put simply, tailings are ground up rock minus the gold. Rocks mined from underground which contain gold are called ore. Processing involves crushing the ore into sand to liberate and recover the gold. What’s left over is called tailings. Approximately 95% of the tailings are generated from gravity separation methods, which ...

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