Matt Price, the report’s author, charges that monitoring and reporting on tailing-pond leakage is handled behind closed doors and is a classic case of the fox guarding the hen house.

The tailings ponds decision would make it five. But while Canada is kicking up the biggest fuss, none of the countries like the NAFTA environmental agreement, according to Debra Steger.

The geophysical characterization of mining tailings and ponds is an essential area of research that addresses the environmental impacts of mining activities. Mining tailings, which are the waste ...

Ciel&Terre and Lenergie said they have installed an 84 kW array at a tailings pond at the Los Bronces mine, which holds one of the largest copper reserves in Chile. They added that the project was ...