We're a ways downstream of a Cardassian tailings pond.
Despite recycling, almost all of it ends up in tailings ponds.
Dust from the tailings pond began to blow over the countryside again in 1985, starting on 10 February, a Sunday.
These would find their way, with other wastes, into a tailings pond - in every sense a depression in the landscape.
Water/slurry levels in the tailings pond must be managed for stability and environmental purposes as well.
He turned and walked away along the bank of an old tailings pond.
In this series of images, the large tailings pond from the 1967 mine was gradually drained and filled in.
The tailings ponds consisted of a very fine black mud which created the opportunity for "mud-larking".
In May 2008, tailings ponds covered approximately 130 km2 of Alberta.
The park was established on land formerly occupied by a tailings pond.