For everyone writing about #Indonesia's plans to dispose of #nickel mine tailings into the sea for #EVbatteries, I would recommend using DSTD instead of DSTP, following the view of scientists writing a few years ago. It's an important distinction: http…
But @Geopacific_GPR intend to dump 12.6 metric tons of toxic deep sea mine tailings into Wamunon Bay over the mine’s lifetime. This practice, at best, has largely unknown impacts on marine life. https://t.co/9y0PSQpqKM
Tailings are the waste produced after extracting the desired metal from the ore. A typical copper ore is less than 1% copper / gold ore is less than 0.1% gold (so 99.9% of the processed material is tailings). Read this paper by members of DOSI's DSTD WG…
RT @4kgjerde: Scientific Considerations for the Assessment and Management of Mine Tailings Disposal in the Deep Sea https://t.co/EX6THA7qTH