On July 12, the mining division ordered Colorado Goldfields to repair the tailings pond, among other needed actions that date to 2005, by Oct. 1 or face revocation of its permit. Lucas West ...

A high-priority $7.2 million Department of Energy project to address water accumulation that threatened the structural ...

“There’s quite a long list of recent tailings dam failures of dams that were built with modern technology,” said Ron Cohen, a professor at the Colorado ... the tailings pond at one of ...

April 22 - An Environmental Protection Agency emergency-response team on Monday will begin repairs on tailings ponds at the abandoned ... silver and copper. The ponds, visible from Colorado 145 just ...

Instead, BHP chose two — Tucson’s Auxilium and Americas Tailings Inc., a Colorado-based company that ... a system of floating panels to cover tailings ponds and save water; and a spray ...

The mine’s owners, the Sibanye Stillwater Mining Co., is seeking permission from ... “A failure of the tailings pond will destroy everything I have with zero insurance coverage for that ...

Sixteen million tons of radioactive uranium tailings once sat near the banks of the Colorado River, putting the waterway in peril of contamination on the outskirts of Moab. Removal began in 2009 ...

It is dry and being reclaimed. In the 1980s, before draining the south site, Kennecott concealed for decades that the southeastern corner of its tailings pond could fail in a major earthquake ...

MOAB — Sixteen million tons of radioactive uranium tailings once sat near the banks of the Colorado River, putting the waterway in peril of contamination on the outskirts of Moab. Removal began ...