Xatsull First Nation has lost a bid to stop the height of a tailings dam from being increased at the Mount Polley mine, site ...

Mines Minister Bill Bennett has given B.C. mines until June 30 to report back on any foundational issues their tailings pond may have. All mining operations in B.C. with tailings ponds will be ...

The B.C. Supreme Court has dismissed a First Nation's bid to stop a tailings dam from being raised at the Mount Polley mine site, 11 years after a catastrophic collapse.

The four-metre raise was labelled "comparatively modest" by the presiding justice in a decision that has already drawn the ...

Mount Polley has also applied to further expand operations and extend the mine’s life, something that would include an ...

A major Canadian mining company has proved its industry can carry out expensive environmental projects worth their weight in gold, while continuing to deliver healthy profits to shareholders.

Tailings ponds are reservoirs of water and toxic byproduct chemicals from oil and gas extraction, as well as mining operations. In fact, they’re often more like tailings lakes, as some of them ...

Environmental groups fear there was a tailings pond leak at Atlantic Gold's Moose River, N.S., gold mine, but the company says its systems are operating normally.

Geoscience Australia, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and the University of Queensland launched an Atlas of Australian Mine Waste, a tool that maps sites across Australia that ...

Alberta’s energy regulator may have ignored provincial law by not publicly disclosing that waste from a large oilsands tailings pond was escaping containment and seeping into groundwater, says a ...

The oilsands region’s tailings ponds — some of the largest in the world — now cover 176 square kilometres and hold enough liquid to fill the equivalent of 390,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.