Radioactive Mill Wastes from Uranium Mining in Ontario
Robert Del Tredici, Stanrock Mine, Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada, August 25, 1982
Stanrock Tailing Wall: The wall of white sand in back of the trees is made up of radioactive mill wastes from uranium mining in the Elliot Lake region of Ontario. More than 100 million tons of these tailings have been deposited directly into the environment. Some of them have been carried by the Serpent River System into the Great Lakes. The radioactive piles are unmarked and are not visible from the road. They will remain hazardous for hundreds of thousands of years.