tailings

Forward Thinking: Dry-Stack Tailings – Designing Processes to Best Possible Practices

July 8, 2020

In the first post of the Forward Thinking series, we touched on some of the environmental and safety advantages that dry-stack tailings technology offers. In today’s post, we explore these advantages in detail. What Are Tailings? Fundamentally, mining involves processing ore that has been mined to separate valuable minerals and metals from the rocks in …

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Rehabilitation in Action: From Tailings Ponds to Green Space in Greece

July 13, 2020

This week, as part of our ongoing tailings management series, we will guide you through one of our rehabilitation projects we have been working on in Greece. At our Olympias site in the Halkidiki Peninsula, we have been overseeing one of the largest environmental rehabilitation projects in the country. Mining activities by the previous project owner left …

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Dry stack tailings at Eldorado Gold's Efemcukuru gold mine in Turkey

Tailings Management 101: An Introduction to One of Mining’s Environmental Safeguards

July 13, 2020

Tailings are a part of mining that get a lot of publicity, and managing them responsibly is a key environmental component of our business. In this post, we’ll help you understand what tailings are and how they’re managed. What Are Tailings? Tailings are a mixture of solid particles, mostly rock, and water that is left …

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