铜陵有色公司铜官山铜矿于1950年开始建设,1952年6月投产.1965年开始,尾矿往矿区西北方向二公里多的黑沙河河滩地段排放(沿长江西路向西排放),目前仍在进行.尾矿场已长达约3公里,最宽处有800米,占地面积1300余亩.一般排放厚度3～4米,有的地方达5～6米. Tongling Nonferrous Co. Tongguan Mountain Copper Mine began construction in 1950 and was put into operation in June 1952. From 1965 onwards, tailings to the northwest of the mining area more than two kilometers of the discharge of the Black River floodplains (along the west side of the Yangtze River west), still Tailings has been up to about 3 km, 800 meters wide at the widest, covers an area of ​​1,300 acres, the general thickness of 3 to 4 meters, in some places up to 5 to 6 meters.