Europe:
Cleveland Potash Ltd, Boulby Mine. Loftus, UK(Backfill of underground workings)
Sillamae Metal and Chemical Production Plant, Estonia (Uranium tailings polluting the Baltic Sea)
Stava, Nr. Trento, Italy (Impoundment failure with a 268 death toll)
Los Frailes Tailings Dam Failure, Nr Sevilla, Spain (Fairly Recent Impoundment Failure)
Lisheen Mine, County Tipperary, Ireland (Europes most advanced tailings facility)
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Africa:
Mufulira Mine, Zambia (Underground breach of a tailings dam)
Merriespruit Tailings Dam Failure, Virginia, South Africa (Impoundment failure)
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North America & Canada:
Highland Valley Copper Mine, Nr. Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada (Good example of remediation)
Kidd Creek Metallurgy Plant, Timmins, Ontario, Canada (First surface Central Thickened Disposal (CTD) site)
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South America:
Hydraulic Mining of Tailings, Disputada Mine, Chile (relocation and reprocessing of Copper tailings)
Dry stacking of tailings, La Coipa, Chile (A large dry stack facility in Chile)
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Russia:
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Australasia:
Kaltails Project, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia (hydraulic mining of tailings to remove old impoundments away from the town and to reprocess the tailings for gold)
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South Asia:
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