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Spring 2020
Near one billion cubic meters tailings have been released to the environment as the result of oil sands mining operations in Canada. These fluid fine tailings are alkaline slurries of water, clays, and residual bitumen that after 3 to 5 years of gradual sedimentation form a thick mud-like slurry...
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Spring 2023
The extraction of bitumen from oil sands is an energy and water-intensive process that produces a tailings byproduct containing sands, clays, water, and residual bitumen. Larger particles eventually settle out of the tailings, but fine particles – stabilized by the residual bitumen – remain...