They have left the land scarred by barren tailings ponds and eroded hilltops .

留下的是布满疤痕的土地，随处可见贫瘠的尾矿池和遭到腐蚀的山顶。

Tailings ponds contain a number of toxins that can leak into the groundwater or the athabasca river .

尾矿池里含有的许多毒素可能会泄漏到地下水或是阿萨巴斯卡河里。

This would have turned several andean lakes into reservoirs or tailings ponds . That alarmed peasant communities .

该项目会使数个安第斯湖泊变为水库或尾矿池，这警醒了当地农民。

Five hundred families have been moved from homes that nestle between piles of ore tailings that rise high above their roofs .

有关部门安排500个家庭迁出了旧居，这些房屋夹在成堆的尾矿当中，堆得比他们的屋顶还高。

Nine years ago on saturday , a tailings dam from the mine burst and washed away most of the houses and crop fields in the village .

9年前的一个周六，矿场上的一座尾矿坝决堤，冲毁了村里的大部分房屋和农田。