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Tailings dams
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The list Tailings dams includes
Tailings dam, Baogang Tailings Dam, Kolwezi tailings project, Tui mine and Syncrude Tailings Dam.
The list consists of 13 members
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Spring Creek Dam
Dam in Shasta-Trinity National ForestShasta County, California
Overview: Spring Creek Debris Dam is an earthfill dam on Spring Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River, in Shasta County in the U.S. state of California. Completed in 1963, the dam, maintained by the U.S. Bureau ...
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Bingham Canyon Mine
World's largest open-pit copper mine, located in Utah, United States
Overview: The Bingham Canyon Mine, more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the ... 0
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Tailings dam
earth-fill embankment dam used to store byproducts of mining operations
Overview: A tailings dam is typically an earth-fill embankment dam used to store byproducts of mining operations after separating the ore from the gangue. Tailings can be liquid, solid, or a slurry of fine particles ... 0
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Tui mine
Abandoned mine in New Zealand
Overview: The Tui mine is an abandoned mine on the western slopes of Mount Te Aroha in the Kaimai Range of New Zealand. It was considered to be the most contaminated site in the country, following the cleanup of ... 0
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Żelazny Most (lake)
Reservoir in Poland
Overview: Żelazny Most Reservoir is the largest sump reservoir of froth (copper mining tailings dam) in Europe, owned by KGHM Polska Miedź. 0
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Bruno Creek Tailings Impoundment
Dam in Custer County, near Challis
Overview: The Bruno Creek Tailings Impoundment is a tailings dam on Bruno Creek, 19 mi (31 km) southwest of Challis in Custer County, Idaho. It serves to store tailings for the nearby Thompson Creek Mine ... 0
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Antamina Tailings Dam
Dam in Huaraz
Overview: The Antamina Tailings Dam, also known as the Antamina Tailings Impoundment Facility, is a tailings dam located in the Huincush Ravine 55 km (34 mi) east of Huaraz in the Ancash Region of Peru ... 0
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Bingham Canyon Mine
World's largest open-pit copper mine, located in Utah, United States
Overview: The Bingham Canyon Mine, more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the ... 0
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Baogang Tailings Dam
Dam in Baotou
Overview: Baogang Tailings Dam, also known as the Baotou Tailings Dam or Weikuang Dam, is a tailings dam in Inner Mongolia, China, on the outer ring of the city of Baotou, about 20 kilometres from the city centre ... 0
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Syncrude Tailings Dam
Dam in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
Overview: The Syncrude Tailings Dam, impounding the Mildred Lake Settling Basin (MLSB), is an embankment dam that is, by volume of construction material, the largest earth structure in the world in 2001. It is ... 0
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Los Leones Dam
Dam in Santiago
Overview: The Los Leones Dam is a tailings dam on Los Leones River, a tributary of Blanco River, about 56 km (35 mi) northeast of Santiago, in Los Andes Province, Chile. The dam was constructed in segments between ... 0
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12.Overview: Kolwezi is a town of about 200,000 people in the Katanga Province of the DRC. It has been a mining center for 100 years. The main river valley is filled with tailings, and there are extensive pits, waste ... 0
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Brushy Fork Coal Impoundment
Dam in Marfork, Raleigh County, West VirginiaOverview: The Brushy Fork Coal Impoundment, also known as the Brushy Fork Coal Sludge Dam, is a large tailings dam on the Brushy Fork near Marfork in western Raleigh County of West Virginia, United States. It is ... 0
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