The McArthur River Mine’s northern waste rock dump spontaneously combusts, producing sulphur dioxide and smoke which billow across the Gulf country for months. The fire at the waste rock dump continues to burn to this day.
This spontaneous combustion signalled a more serious and slow acting problem associated with the generation of acid mine drainage occurring within the waste rock dump, generated from the potentially acid-forming rock in the waste rock dump.
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