The collapse of a tailings facility in Peru’s Ananea district has destroyed a segment of the main road that connects the area with the neighbouring La Rinconada mining district.
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Crews working to avoid collapse of retention pond at the former Piney Point mine. (
The US State of Florida is under a state of emergency since Saturday after a massive and potentially “catastrophic” leak from an old phosphate mine’s tailings pond threatened to burst a system storing millions of gallons of water containing radioactive materials.
Officials have evacuated more than 300 homes and closed off a highway near the now shut Piney Point mine’s reservoir in the Tampa Bay area, north of Bradenton.
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Aerial images aired on local television showed water pouring from leaks in the walls of the retention pond.