Researchers in South Korea have conducted a literature review on recorded cases of floating PV plants placed on mine pit lakes and tailings ponds, both of which are byproducts of the mining industry.

Saurav Vishnu’s award-winning documentary short “Tailing Pond” is being expanded into a six-part documentary series with the involvement of “Sex and the City” actor Cynthia Nixon. Nixon narrated the ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - State health officials have begun testing for radiation contamination after the pilot of a firefighting helicopter inadvertently scooped water from a defunct uranium mine tailings ...

A polluted tailings pond at the Kennecott Utah mine has sunk 20 feet or more, raising concerns that it has seeped contamination into the neighboring Great Salt Lake. But the state regulator charged ...

Dust blowing off toxic waste ponds at the defunct Giant Mine near Yellowknife has a nearby aboriginal leader concerned and calling on at least one level of government to have the ponds covered up for ...

HOUSTON, Oct. 23-- Suncor Energy Inc. is seeking approvals for a process it says can shrink the environmental footprint of oil sands mining operations. The process, called tailings reduction ...