Tailings
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Silver tailings: Profitable waste?
Tailings are materials produced from mining such as milled rock and effluents. In many cases, massive quantities of these materials, regarded as waste, are left from previous operations. Given the potential health and environmental risks associated with tailings, they could be viewed as problems or project deterrents, but then again, they could be viewed as a source of cash.
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Mine Slurry Transport
International Mining | April 7, 2011Climate change and the need for environmentally responsible, cost effective and efficient methods of ore and tailings transport place great demands on the industry. A growing number of operations are meeting the challenge by using more hydrotransport handling of solid/liquid …
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TECHNICAL PAPER: A shaking idea for oil sands fine tailings management
Ralph Gunness | February 1, 2011
This article focuses on oil sands fine tailings management prior to being discharged to a final tailings dam so as to suggest a more sustainable solution.
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Oil Sands Tailings: What Needs to be Done
J.D. Scott and B. Ozum | September 1, 2010The accumulation of mature fine tailings (MFT) in tailings ponds has been a concern of the oil sands industry for nearly four decades. However, even when a few measures have been implemented, the industry is still using processes that operate at elevated pH, which …
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FLSmidth to supply filters for Rosemont Copper Project in USA
infomine - mining equipment and supplier news | April 13, 2010FLSmidth has received an order worth approximately USD 31m from Rosemont Copper Company for the supply of 14 filter presses. These minerals-type automated filter presses will be the largest in the world and will be installed as part of Rosemont …
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SV240 Multi-pot slurry system from Supavac
engineering news | March 25, 2010waste recovery Drilling mud and cuttings transfer Transfer of mining slurries Sump and shaft cleaning Tailings and ash pond
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Deswik Technologies to Supply Mill to Tharisa Mineral
infomine - mining equipment and supplier news | November 24, 2009Deswik Technologies is please to announce the receipt of a purchase order from Tharisa Minerals for a Deswik500 mill for their Brits PGE project in the South Africa. The Deswik mill will form part of a re-grind float circuit that …
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TAILINGS RETREATMENT: Oil sands projects receives federal funding
infomine - mining equipment and supplier news | September 22, 2009ALBERTA — Titanium Corporation of Edmonton will receive up to $4.9 million in federal funds fromSustainable Development Technology Canada(SDTC) for its "Creating Value from Waste" project. ….more at Canadian Mining Journal
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Improving the efficiency of the tailings thickener in a coal preparation plant
MINING.com Editor | September 21, 2009A customer had multiple coal types, that were processed through the preparation plant. Some of the coal types had different settling characteristics, which affected tailings thickener efficiency and the "clarometer" instrument that tested settling rates in the incoming feed well failed from time to time, which meant that the floccing rate changed and the suspended solids increased, [...]
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Quimsacocha Gold Mine Development
infomine - mining equipment and supplier news | August 7, 2008The property consists of four mining concessions covering an aggregate area of approximately 12,967 ha and is located in southern Ecuador, 30 km SW of the city of Cuenca at an elevation of 3,600 m. The project is accessible via …
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South Africa: RBM to Build Tailings Plant
infomine - mining equipment and supplier news | June 5, 2008RICHARDS Bay Minerals , the minerals sands company owned jointly by BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, had approved a R1bn project to build a tailings treatment plant that would extend the life of its KwaZulu-Natal …more at topix
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Everclear's commercial-grade electrolyser
infomine - mining equipment and supplier news | May 30, 2008Applied Intellectual Capital (AIC) has successfully launched a commercial-grade electrolyser manufacturing program in support of its affiliate, EverClear Solutions. Specifically developed to meet the rigours of continuous operation in metals recovery operations for the industry, this second generation (2-G) electrolyser …
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New Generation Outotec Thickeners to Feature in US$550 Million Kolwezi Project
infomine - mining equipment and supplier news | May 28, 2008State-of the-art thickening technology is currently being designed by Outotec for First Quantum Minerals’ Kolwezi US$550 million-plus project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This thickening technology will be a world first. The thickeners, due for delivery and installation at …
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Mintek, Braemore Achieve Important Milestones in Conroast Technology Development
infomine - mining equipment and supplier news | May 23, 2008Mintek and Braemore Resources plc are planning to double the throughput of the ConRoast smelter at Mintek, following seven months of successful continuous operation. Since October 2007, the DC arc furnace at Mintek has treated high-chromium material containing platinum group …
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Fine grinding and some new silver extraction ideas
infomine - mining equipment and supplier news | April 23, 2008International Mining’s May issue includes a major article on mineral processing advances. Sadly some of this article had to be cut because of space constraints. The first to hit the editing room floor was a section on fine grinding. Platinum …
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Everclear's commercial-grade electrolyser
infomine - mining equipment and supplier news | April 22, 2008International Mining reports that in an important advance in clean processing, Applied Intellectual Capital (AIC) has successfully launched a commercial-grade electrolyser manufacturing program in support of its affiliate, EverClear Solutions. Specifically developed to meet the rigours of continuous operation in …
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Larox Won 7.5 Million Filter Orders
infomine - mining equipment and supplier news | April 18, 2008Larox has received approximately EUR 7.5 million worth of orders to supply filters and auxiliaries to a chemical company in Germany and to two mining companies in Mexico. Two of the orders will be delivered during the second half of …
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Kennecott gives county $250,000 for tailings probe
infomine - mining equipment and supplier news | April 11, 2008The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Kennecott Utah Copper put cash Tuesday behind its commitment for an independent investigation into the safety of its tailings pile.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Orezone Completes the Sale of Sega to Cluff Gold for $26.5M
Orezone Gold Corporation (ORE:TSX) is pleased to announce that it has completed the sale of its Sega Gold Project ("Sega") in Burkina Faso to Cluff Gold plc (Cluff) for total consideration of approximately US$26.5M.
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