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Doug Bostrom Mar 23, 2025

The first lesson from this excellent reporting: never -ever- "throw away" copper.

We simply cannot afford to. The supply has to last as long as our civilization, and that supply makes a hell of a mess.

#copper
#MineTailings
#LivingBeyondOurMeans

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/columbia-basin-copper-mining-has-clean-energy-promise-risks/

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Mar 18, 2025

Coastal Environments - LiDAR Mapping of Copper Tailings Impacts, Particle Retention of Copper, Leaching, and Toxicity
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https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17050922 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #coastalenvironment #coast #coastal #mine #tailings #minetailings #GlobalTailingsManagementStandard #Keweenaw #LiDAR #bathymetry #topobathy #UAS #drone #particledispersal #copper #retention #leaching #BuffaloReef #toxicity #Daphnia #benthic #organisms #risk #hazard #contamination #impacts #sediment #water #hydrology #Michigan #USA #LakeSuperior #PortageLakeVolcanic #geology #spatialanalysis #biology #ecosystems #fisheries #trout #enviornmentalimpacts #leaching #riparian #systems

ResearchBuzz: Firehose Jan 26, 2025

Geoscience BC: Geoscience BC Publishes BC Mine Tailings and Waste Rock Compilation. “The digital compilation includes mineral occurrences, geographic, environmental and infrastructure data to produce a geospatial project containing the location and known characteristics of more than 1,000 tailings and waste rock sites from more than 500 current and legacy mining sites with critical minerals. […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/26/geoscience-bc-geoscience-bc-publishes-bc-mine-tailings-and-waste-rock-compilation/