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Żelazny Most (lake)
Żelazny Most Reservoir is the largest sump reservoir of Froth flotation, froth (copper mining tailings dam) in Europe, owned by KGHM Polska Miedź. The name of the reservoir comes from the nearby village of Żelazny Most, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Żelazny Most, located 3.4 kilometres south-west of the reservoir; with the village of Rudna, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Rudna to the east of the reservoir. The reservoir's construction began in 1974, and Exploitation of natural resources, exploitation (and the completion of the reservoir's construction) on February 12, 1977. The construction of the reservoir included the destruction of the villages of Barszów, Kalinówka, and Pielgrzymów. Previously, the sump was stored in the Gilów Reservoir, which was closed after the new reservoir was put into operation. The site is the largest tailings dam in Europe, which was further expanded in 2021.Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterization 4, edited by Roberto Quental Coutinho a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reservoir
A reservoir (; ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to water storage, store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation. Reservoirs are created by controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of water, interrupting a watercourse to form an Bay, embayment within it, excavating, or building any number of retaining walls or levees to enclose any area to store water. Types Dammed valleys Dammed reservoirs are artificial lakes created and controlled by a dam constructed across a valley and rely on the natural topography to provide most of the basin of the reservoir. These reservoirs can either be ''on-stream reservoirs'', which are located on the original streambed of the downstream river and are filled by stream, creeks, rivers or rainwater that surface runoff, runs off the surrounding forested catchments, or ''off-stream reservoirs'', which receive water diversion, diverted water from a nearby stream or aqueduct (water supply), aq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sump Reservoir
Sump may refer to: * An infiltration basin used to manage surface runoff water and recharge underground aquifers * Sump (cave), a permanently flooded section of a cave, where an underground flow of water exits the cave into the earth such that the caver must submerge under water to reach the other side * the lowest point in a basement, which collects water that enters from outside and can be moved back out with a sump pump * the sump at the bottom of an internal combustion engine, where oil pools ** dry sump in racing motorcycles and piston aircraft engines ** wet sump * Sump (aquarium) * A sump section below the mouthpiece of a diving snorkel * the sump in a nuclear power plant's reactor housing that collects any overflow of primary loop coolant * In a shaft sinking, the water handling facility of the mine often at its lowest point * the bilge of a boat * the vitreous humour, which serves a minor role as a metabolic sump of the human eye * a grenade sump in a foxhole * t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tailings Dam
A tailings dam is typically an earth-fill embankment dam used to store byproducts of mining operations after separating the ore from the gangue. Tailings can be liquid, solid, or a slurry of fine particles, and are usually highly toxic and potentially radioactive. Solid tailings are often used as part of the structure itself. Tailings dams rank among the largest engineered structures on earth. The Syncrude Tailings Dam, Syncrude Mildred Lake Tailings Dyke in Alberta, Canada, is an embankment dam about long and from high. The dam and the artificial lake within it are constructed and maintained as part of ongoing operations by Syncrude in extracting oil from the Athabasca oil sands; it is the largest dam structure on earth by volume, and as of 2001 it was believed to be the largest earth structure in the world by volume of fill. There are key differences between tailings dams and the more familiar Hydroelectricity#Conventional (dams), hydroelectric dams. Tailings dams are design ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east. Europe shares the landmass of Eurasia with Asia, and of Afro-Eurasia with both Africa and Asia. Europe is commonly considered to be Boundaries between the continents#Asia and Europe, separated from Asia by the Drainage divide, watershed of the Ural Mountains, the Ural (river), Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea, and the waterway of the Bosporus, Bosporus Strait. "Europe" (pp. 68–69); "Asia" (pp. 90–91): "A commonly accepted division between Asia and Europe ... is formed by the Ural Mountains, Ural River, Caspian Sea, Caucasus Mountains, and the Black Sea with its outlets, the Bosporus and Dardanelles." Europe covers approx. , or 2% of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface (6.8% of Earth's land area), making it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KGHM Polska Miedź
KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. (Kombinat Górniczo-Hutniczy Miedzi), commonly known as KGHM (Polish pronunciation: ), is a Polish multinational mining corporation headquartered in Lubin, Lower Silesia, Poland. Founded in 1961 as a state enterprise, the company is considered a major global producer of copper and silver. Since 1997, it has been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE). The company is also a component of the WIG30 stock market index. Currently, KGHM employs around 34,000 people worldwide and operates 9 open-pit and underground mines in Poland, Canada, the United States and Chile. KGHM produces key global resources including copper, copper sulphate, gold, silver, nickel, nickel sulphate, molybdenum, rhenium, lead, sulphuric acid, selenium, platinum group metals. History Early history and foundation In 1951, the construction of the Copper Smelter in Legnica was commenced to smelt copper from the ore mined in the so-called old Lower Silesian copper basin ("Lena" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Żelazny Most, Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Żelazny Most ("iron bridge") () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Polkowice, within Polkowice County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately east of Polkowice and north-west of the regional capital Wrocław Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu .... Satellite photos of Żelazny Most show a circular body of water with a radius. It is a flotation wastes depository, storing trailings from three adjacent copper mines. References External links Satellite photo Villages in Polkowice County {{Polkowice-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudna, Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Rudna is a village (former town) in Lubin County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district (gmina) called Gmina Rudna. It lies approximately north of Lubin and north-west of the regional capital Wrocław. The village was originally called ''Nowa Ruda'' (New Rudna) - Old Polish ''ruda'' meaning ore – to distinguish it from the neighbouring small village of Stara Rudna (Old Rudna). Originated about 1280, it was not mentioned before 1347 in a deed of Charles IV of Luxemburg, at this time King of Bohemia, as a town within the Duchy of Ścinawa (Steinau). After World War II, the village lost its town rights and became part of the now-defunct Legnica Voivodeship. Notable residents * Hymn-writer Johann Heermann (1585-1647) * Heinz-Gerhard Vogt (1911–1945), Luftwaffe The Luftwaffe () was the aerial warfare, aerial-warfare branch of the before and during World War II. German Empire, Germany's military air a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exploitation Of Natural Resources
The exploitation of natural resources describes using natural resources, often non-renewable or limited, for economic growth or development. Environmental degradation, human insecurity, and social conflict frequently accompany natural resource exploitation. The impacts of the depletion of natural resources include the decline of economic growth in local areas; however, the abundance of natural resources does not always correlate with a country's material prosperity. Many resource-rich countries, especially in the Global South, face distributional conflicts, where local bureaucracies mismanage or disagree on how resources should be used. Foreign industries also contribute to resource exploitation, where raw materials are outsourced from developing countries, with the local communities receiving little profit from the exchange. This is often accompanied by negative effects of economic growth around the affected areas such as inequality and pollution The exploitation of natural res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakes Of Poland
The following is a list of lakes of Poland. * Lake Dabie (Jezioro Dąbie in Szczecin) * Lake Ruda Woda (Jezioro Ruda Woda in Iława lake district) * Lake Mamry (Jezioro Mamry in Mazury lake district) * Lake Sniardwy (Jezioro Śniardwy in Mazury lake district) * Lake Lebsko (Jezioro Łebsko) * Lake Miedwie (Jezioro Miedwie) * Lake Jeziorak (Jezioro Jeziorak) * Lake Niegocin (Jezioro Niegocin) * Lake Gardno (Jezioro Gardno) * Lake Jamno (Jezioro Jamno) * Lake Wigry (Jezioro Wigry) * Lake Gopło (Jezioro Gopło) * Lake Drawsko (Jezioro Drawsko) * Lake Orzysz (Jezioro Orzysz) * Lake Resko Przymorskie * Lake Chłop * Lake Uścimowiec * Bukówka Lake *Jezioro Drewęckie *Jezioro Pauzeńskie *Jezioro Szelag Mały *Jezioro Szelag Duży *Jezioro Sajmino *Jezioro Perskie *Jezioro Puzy *Jezioro Ruś *Jezioro Morliny *Jezioro Gugowa *Jezioro Jakuba *Jezioro Czarne *Jezioro Srebrne *Jezioro Taburz See also * {{portal-inline, Lakes Poland Poland, officially the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakes Of Lower Silesian Voivodeship
A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a depression (geology), basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from the ocean, although they may be connected with the ocean by rivers. Lakes, as with other bodies of water, are part of the water cycle, the processes by which water moves around the Earth. Most lakes are fresh water and account for almost all the world's surface freshwater, but some are salt lakes with salinities even higher than that of seawater. Lakes vary significantly in surface area and volume of water. Lakes are typically larger and deeper than ponds, which are also water-filled basins on land, although there are no official definitions or scientific criteria distinguishing the two. Lakes are also distinct from lagoons, which are generally shallow tidal pools dammed by sandbars or other material at coastal regions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 Establishments In Poland
Events January * January 8 – 1977 Moscow bombings, Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). * January 17 – 49 marines from the and are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain. * January 18 ** Scientists identify a previously unknown Bacteria, bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. ** Australia's worst Granville rail disaster, railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. ** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina. * January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207 Azor, CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, Valencia, Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
