Underwater Tailing Placement at Island Copper Mine
Subtitle: A Success Story
Contributors: George Wesley Poling (Editor)
Publisher: Society for Mining Metallurgy & Exploration
Published: August 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780873352147
Subjects: Metals technology / metallurgy; Mining technology & engineering; Technology; Metallurgy; Waste disposal; Technology & Industrial Arts; Tailings (Metallurgy); Science/Mathematics; Mineral industries; Mining; Waste disposal in the ocean; Environmental Engineering & Technology; Environmental aspects
First sentence: In today's world, the mining industry's use of space must compete with all other land uses, such as wilderness, recreation, wetlands, ranching, agriculture, population centers, and forestry.