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D. Woodruff, L. Macnamara, in The Coal Handbook: Towards Cleaner Production: Coal Production, 2013. 16.2.6 Tailings ponds open circuit. If sufficient area is available close to the plant, by far the cheapest solution to tailings disposal is to pump the tailings from the thickener underflow to a pond or lagoon, where the solids can, over time, settle out to a dense saturated solid bed and the
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