Mount Polly Mine Tailings Pond
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British Columbia /
Williams Lake /
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/ Canada
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/ Williams Lake
World / Canada / British Columbia / Cariboo
waste, mining, tailings
Tailings = Material rejected from a mill after most of the recoverable valuable minerals have been extracted. Normally consists of ground up rock in the sand to silt size range.
A tailings pond is usually but not always a man-made structure consisting of dykes or dams, and allows the tailings to settle before water (used in the milling process) is discharged back into the watershed.
This tailings pond is associated with the nearby Mount Polley Mine.
A tailings pond is usually but not always a man-made structure consisting of dykes or dams, and allows the tailings to settle before water (used in the milling process) is discharged back into the watershed.
This tailings pond is associated with the nearby Mount Polley Mine.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 52°30'50"N 121°35'44"W
- Gibraltar Tailings Pond 48 km
- Mine Tailings 218 km
- Kennecott Tailings Pond 1490 km
- Sewage out-fall 2122 km
- ASARCO Mine Tailings Dams 2434 km
- Hurley copper smelter site 2456 km
- old mine tailings 2848 km
- Tailings 2957 km
- Gaspe Mines tailings dump 3871 km
- Site of radioactive waste dump for the NEA from 1971 to 1982 - location: 46 ° 01'N - 16 ° 52 'W 6926 km
- Mount Polley Mine 5.1 km
- QR Mine 22 km
- Gibraltar Mine 46 km
- Gibraltar East Pit 47 km
- Cariboo Gold Project 63 km
- Troll Ski Resort 67 km
- Kibbee Lake 85 km
- Indianpoint Lake 87 km
- Bowron Lake Provincial Park 87 km
- Isaac Lake 88 km
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