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Feasibility of re-processing mine tailings to obtain critical …

1. Introduction. Mine tailings are waste obtained after the processing of some minerals to acquire one or more elements of interest. They are composed of a mixture of heavy metals, water, sand, and fine-grained solid material, and generally are deposited in ponds without further treatment (Babel et al., 2016; Santibañez et al., 2012; L. Wang et …

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Geochemistry of a copper mine tailings deposit in Repparfjorden

The flotation process appears to include some differences, as the copper concentration in the tailings emitted in the 1970's were higher (typical value ca. 470 ppm Cu (Paulsen et al., 1977)) than analyses of the fabricated tailings produced in 2015 (approximately 200 ppm), or the copper content in the ore has changed. The elements …

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The Use of Acid Leaching to Recover Metals from Tailings: A …

Mine tailings deposits are often overlooked by the industry, posing significant environmental challenges due to chemical hazards and inadequate maintenance. Nevertheless, such mineral deposits hold considerable economic potential for processing, and the adoption of innovative technologies may also address critical chemical and …

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Selective Process Route to Recover Magnetite from

copper tailings during the copper mineral separation process [2, 5, 7]. According to the statistics, up to 2007, the total discharge of copper tailings nationwide was about 2.4 bil-lion tonnes, and the annual production has been increasing year by year [11]. Due to the wide variability of physical and chemical prop-

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Recovery of iron from copper tailings via low-temperature …

Copper mine tailings, a main byproduct of copper ore flotation processing [28], is causing extensive environmental pollution in many copper-mining countries. Around 30 million tonnes of copper ...

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MANAGEMENT OF TAILINGS: PAST, PRESENT AND …

copper production, particularly in Chile, increased significantly. The failure resulted in almost immediate industry-initiated changes to tailings facility construction in Chile. …

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Recent practices in mine tailings' recycling and reuse

Copper-rich tailings can be turned into lightweight ceramics by sintering iron tailings mixed with fly ash and sewage sludge in paint making. Tailings can be used as additives for soil in road construction in the construction industry. ... After this process, the tailings are brought into a homogeneous state and mixed with water and activator ...

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What are Tailings

Mineral commodities commonly recovered in the United States are copper, gold, silver, iron, lead, zinc, uranium and coal. The commodity, as a product, is sold and used to fabricate many things such as parts for a car, electrical cable for energy transmission and jewelry. ... After processing, tailings are impounded so that their effect on the ...

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Copper Mining and Processing: Processing Copper …

Copper processing is a complicated process that begins with mining of the ore (less than 1% copper) and ends with sheets of …

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Jubilee to process 300 million tons of copper/cobalt tailings in Zambia

The Project Roan transaction further includes additional rights to an estimated further 6.6 million tonnes of copper tailings near the processing facility (the "Tailings") while holding the option to convert the lease agreement of the property where the processing facility is located to direct ownership of the property.

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The Challenges and Prospects of Recovering Fine Copper …

Flotation is a common mineral processing method used to upgrade copper sulfide ores; in this method, copper sulfide mineral particles are concentrated in froth, and associated gangue minerals are ...

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Toward sustainable reprocessing and valorization of sulfidic …

Copper tailings are produced from different mines, and thus it is important to fully characterize the quality and quantity of copper tailings at each site. ... that …

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Recycling and Reuse of Mine Tailings: A Review of …

Up to 20% is saved when we use copper ore tailings instead of Portland cement. The copper tailings produced in this way have good strength and durability characteristics. ... Pramusanto, P.; Hermana, F.A. The research of gold processing from tailings of iron sand processing from South Kalimantan by using amalgamation …

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Toward sustainable reprocessing and valorization of sulfidic copper …

Copper tailings are produced from different mines, and thus it is important to fully characterize the quality and quantity of copper tailings at each site. ... Feasibility of re-processing mine tailings to obtain critical raw materials using real options analysis. J. Environ. Manag., 284 (2021), Article 112060, 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112060 ...

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Renewable ammonium chloride-induced calcium leaching of gold and copper

A high-value treatment of high-calcium gold-copper tailings is proposed. • NH 4 Cl solution was used as a leaching agent to prepare spherical vaterite that can exist stably.. Nanoparticle aggregation and crystal growth are two mechanisms of high-purity spherical vaterite prepared by CO 2 bubbling carbonation.

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Processing Tests, Adjusted Cost Models and the …

The copper grade is substantially higher compared to the average copper grade in tailings from the 1930s of 0.33% and far above the average of SERNAGEOMIN's cadaster of mine tailings (sampling only the first …

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A Review of the Cyanidation Treatment of Copper-Gold Ores …

The cyanidation of copper flotation tailings containing sulfides for gold recovery is an example of the formation of cyanide complexes with copper and silver during the leaching process [11,12]. Figure 4 shows the MLA Automated Minerology image of an ore sample from a copper mine in Mexico, containing chalcopyrite and bornite as …

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Finding New Life for Tailings: Sustainable Technology for …

However, also copper and zinc can bring additional revenues to the project. Differentiating factors of the three pyrite groups in Table 1 are the value streams, sulfuric acid, valuable metals, and energy production. Depending on the ore grade, one or the other value stream becomes the leading parameter of the final process concept and driver ...

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2. Processing of Sulphide Ores and Mine Tailings: …

The main chemical reagents used in the metallurgical flotation process of copper sulphide minerals and present in copper mining tailings are presented below [2,47]. The following types of reagents are disclosed: (i) acids, (ii) alkalis or pH regulators, (iii) modifiers, (iv) collectors, (v) ing agents, and (vi) flocculants ( Table 1 ).

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Development of copper recovery process from flotation tailings …

The vast majority of copper present in Cu‒loaded organic phase An efficient copper recovery process (total copper recovery of 86.2%) is proposed for the utilization of concentrate of flotation tailings as one of the new copper resources using a combined hydrometallurgical process of HPL–solvent extraction.

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Visualizing the Size of Mine Tailings

Visualizing the Size of Mine Tailings. On January 25th, 2019, a 10-meter tall wave traveling 120 km/h, washed 10 million m 3 of mining waste from the Brumadinho tailings dam over the Brazilian countryside killing somewhere between 270 and 320 people.. This was a manmade disaster, made from mining the materials we use daily. …

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Improving Flocculation Performance of Copper Flotation Tailings …

The dewatering of tailings is one of the serious challenges that the mining and mineral processing industries have encountered internationally. Solid–liquid separation methods are applied to wastewater, which generally consists of fine particles and water; fine particles are settled in thickeners by the flocculation method and the cleaned water is …

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Mining copper tailings could answer supply …

There is an estimated total of 217,330,652,000 m 3 of tailings in storage globally, with copper accounting for ... its "more energy-efficient process to extract copper from regular- and lower ...

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Experimental Study of the Sulphatizing Roasting of Flotation Tailings …

Grudinsky et al. (2021) and Wan et al. (2021) studied sulfation roasting, followed by extraction with water, of respectively tailings of copper slag processing and copper slags and found technical ...

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The Development of Innovated Complex Process for …

The possibility of selective Cu and Zn leaching from the sample of old pyrite tailings, which is one of the most widespread types of solid waste forming during non-ferrous metal production, using sulfuric acid solutions and water was studied. It was shown that water leaching provided selective extraction of Cu and Zn and comparatively low …

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Processing Tests, Adjusted Cost Models and the …

Copper is by value one of the main mineral commodities in the world [].Due to the nature of mineral deposits, not only ore minerals are extracted, but also barren minerals that have to be deposited as tailings [].According …

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How to reshape the future of tailings?

dewatering solutions can process a high volume of tailings and help save operational and maintenance costs while also gathering data and preventive maintenance know-how, leading to reduced wear and tear. ... In gold, copper sulfide and iron ore tailings, there's potential to extract further minerals and mining companies are …

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Process Mineralogy Assisted Iso-Floatability of Copper-Zinc …

Iso-floatability flotation process was further applied to the magnetic tailings, achieving a copper grade of 28.37 wt.% and a recovery of 25.11% in the copper concentrates. Subsequently, zinc and lead grades of 49.04% wt .% and 8.06% wt .% were obtained in the zinc-lead concentrates, with a recovery of 51.72% and 25.21%, …

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Processing Tests, Adjusted Cost Models and the Economies …

TSF near Taltal (Google Earth) with drilling locations. The tailings have their maximum thickness (15 m) in the northern area (TT 122 to TT 124), where samples were taken up to a depth of 11 m and ...

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The Challenges and Prospects of Recovering Fine Copper …

Flotation is a common mineral processing method used to upgrade copper sulfide ores; in this method, copper sulfide mineral particles are concentrated in froth, and associated gangue minerals are separated as tailings. However, a significant amount of copper is lost into tailings during the processing; therefore, tailings can be …

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