Freeport-McMoRan owns stakes in 10 copper mines including three of the world’s largest: 49% of the Grasberg copper and gold operations in Indonesia, 55% of the Cerro Verde mine in Peru, and 72% of ...

An underground metals mine in New South Wales has made efforts to plug a hole made during exploration drilling that accidentally breached the tailings of an abandoned mine. Workers were drilling ...

The Global Tailings Management Institute (GTMI), an independent organization dedicated to improving the safety of mine tailings facilities globally, have been recently launched Established by the ...

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – In a bid to help make mine tailings safer for people and the environment, a global institute has been launched in South Africa which has also been selected as ...

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For most operations, water availability and cost are pivotal to the viability of a mine, with much of the water used in separation processes ends up in tailings, often stored in wet impoundments ...

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – In a bid to help make mine tailings safer for people and the environment, a global institute has been launched in South Africa which has also been selected as the ...

Vale will build the world's largest activated clay plant for cement production from tailings at the Carajás ore mine in Pará. The project is already at an advanced stage, with Thyssenkrupp unit ...