{"id":46225,"date":"2019-05-19T06:29:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T11:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46225"},"modified":"2019-05-19T06:29:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T11:29:24","slug":"the-massive-46-story-tall-structure-the-penasquito-mine-tailings-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46225","title":{"rendered":"THE MASSIVE 46 STORY TALL STRUCTURE: The Penasquito Mine Tailings Dam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/srsroccoreport.com\/the-massive-46-story-tall-penasquito-mine-tailings-dam\/\">THE MASSIVE 46 STORY TALL STRUCTURE: The Penasquito Mine Tailings Dam<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The colossal Penasquito Mine\u2019s tailings dam will reach a stunning height of a 46 story skyscraper over the next decade.&nbsp; That is, if the mine reopens and is allowed to continue business as usual.&nbsp; Newmont-Goldcorp suspended operations at Mexico\u2019s second largest silver mine on April 29th, due to a blockade stemming from issues with the local community in regards to water supply concerns and problems with a trucking contractor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, the Penasquito Mine produced 272,000 oz of gold and over 18 million oz of silver.&nbsp; However, it plans on producing over 5 million oz of gold and 400+ million oz of silver over the next decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After I published my article,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/srsroccoreport.com\/more-trouble-in-mexico-second-largest-silver-mine-suspended-operations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em><strong>MORE TROUBLE IN MEXICO: Second Largest Silver Mine Suspended Operations<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, I did some research on Penasquito\u2019s tailings dam, and when I saw a photo of the dam, I was literally shocked by its massive size.&nbsp; I never really gave it much thought about where all the waste ended up after the processing of ore was finished.&nbsp; It\u2019s a typical problem we all deal with today, OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Let me start by saying that the tailings dam is so large; it surpasses the size of the Penasquito open-pit mine itself.<\/strong>&nbsp;For clarification, the tailings dam (or ponds) are used to store the processed waste slurry after the metals have been extracted.&nbsp; Here is a layout of the Penasquito Mining Operation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dizgpp7sc1t8t.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Penasquito-Project-Layout.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20233\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(image courtesy of Goldcorp 2018 Tailings &amp; Mine Waste Conference PDF report)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you can see, the tailings dam is 4 kilometers long compared to the Penasquito open-pit mine, which is about half its size.&nbsp; However, this layout doesn\u2019t give the epic scale of the tailings dam justice.&nbsp; According to the images in Goldcorp\u2019s 2018 Tailings &amp; Mine Waste Conference PDF, and data from the company\u2019s Feb 2019 Penasquito Mine Tour Presentation,&nbsp;<strong>the tailings dam is currently 85 meters tall, or nearly 280 feet in height<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE MASSIVE 46 STORY TALL STRUCTURE: The Penasquito Mine Tailings Dam The colossal Penasquito Mine\u2019s tailings dam will reach a stunning height of a 46 story skyscraper over the next decade.&nbsp; That is, if the mine reopens and is allowed to continue business as usual.&nbsp; Newmont-Goldcorp suspended operations at Mexico\u2019s second largest silver mine on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[517,25798,690,12073,25895],"class_list":["post-46225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-mexico","tag-penasquito-mine","tag-risk","tag-srsrocco-report","tag-tailings-dam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46226,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46225\/revisions\/46226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}