tailings

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Miles and miles of refineries and their stinking tailings ponds, adjacent to beach resorts that run on desalination plants.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

Instead, these materials end up in mine waste, also known as tailings, which must be stored and monitored to prevent environmental harm.

From Science Daily • Dec. 28, 2025

The tailings dam at a Sino Metals copper mine failed in Feb.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

In the court papers the farmers said they had learned that the water was highly toxic only several days after the tailings dam had collapsed.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2025

Lawrence reasoned, however, that although domestic sources of uranium ore were practically nonexistent, uranium was plentiful in another form: tons of uranium tailings piled up as waste at Oak Ridge and Hanford.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik