Mine tailings dams: Characteristics, failure ...
Tailings are mixtures of crushed rock and processing fluids from mills, washeries or concentrators that remain after the extraction of economic metals, minerals, mineral fuels or coal from the mine resource (, Fig. 1a; HudsonEdwards et al., 2001, Younger and Wolkersdorfer, 2004, Lottermoser, 2007).The word ''tailings'' is generic as it describes the byproduct of several extractive ...