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mine dump

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mine dump
n
(Mining & Quarrying) South African a large mound of residue, esp from gold-mining operations
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Isolated under strict security for 80 years of mining, towering mine dumps reach hundreds of metres into the air along the coast, the site of one of the most ambitious mining restoration projects to date.
Diamond mining is not forever, SAfrica learns by AFP / AFP Global Edition
Nothing is left on the ground now except old mine dumps.
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Otherwise, stabilization of mine dumps, maintenance of superficial water drainage in the waste area, and final remediation would prevent increase in contamination and speed up the return to the initial or natural geochemical level of contamination, which is limited by the geological environment.
Abandoned Smolnik mine (Slovakia)--a catchment area affected by ... by Lintnerova, Otilia; Sottnik, Peter; Soltes, Stanislav / Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences
 
 
 
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