Recycling mine tailings in chemically bonded ceramics – A …

Recycling of mine tailings for the geopolymers production: A systematic review. 2022, Case Studies in Construction Materials. Show abstract. The mining sector generates a considerable amount of waste stone and tailings, which constitute a ‎‎substantial hazard to the ecology. The most prevalent method of disposing of these industrial ...

Recycling of mine tailings for the geopolymers production: A …

This article discusses recent ‎‎advances in the production of mine tailings-based geopolymers composites (MT-GPC) from waste and ‎‎industrial by-products as a potentially …

Recycling and Reuse of Mine Tailings: A Review …

Adding to this, the legacy of environmental damage from abandoned mines is worrying; there are around 10,000 abandoned mines in Canada, 50,000 in Australia, and 6000 in South Africa, as well as ...

Recycling of arsenic-rich mine tailings in controlled low …

The management of waste materials generated from the mining process is a serious environmental issue in various countries (Sivakugan et al., 2006, Benzaazoua et al., 2008).Among these waste materials, mine tailings contain various toxic trace elements such as arsenic (hereinafter, As), heavy metals, and sulfide, which can cause environmental contamination …

The Reprocessing and Revalorization of Critical Minerals in Mine Tailings

Mine tailings, the byproduct of mining and mineral processing, are increasingly mass produced as a result of increased demand for metals and minerals as well as the advancement in technology that allows for the exploitation of lower-grade ores. ... The reuse and recycling of previously mined sites present the opportunity for a circular economy ...

Recycling and Reuse of Mine Tailings: A Review of …

In this scenario, recycling mine tailings can help reduce the number of tailings for disposal. Circular economy, recyclability, recycling, and reuse have been identified as …

Waste away: a new life for tailings

Tailings | Recovering and re-mining mine waste is a credible and potentially financially alluring prospect, as the mineral intensity of the clean energy transition requires …

These Two Companies Are Innovating To Help With …

Enervoxa, meanwhile, develops extraction technologies to process various mining tailings, and is also active in hydrogen production for clean energy, along with other green technologies.

Preparation and characteristics of cold-bonded lightweight …

Especially, mine tailings, as the main solid waste produced from mining process, has an accumulated stockpile more than 23.1 billion tons [6], which are usually discharged into surface tailings ponds. This result in occupying of a large amount of land and great risks of eco-environmental security.

Recovery of strategically important critical minerals from mine tailings

Fig. 2 shows a proposed recycling flowsheet of hydrometallurgical methods for REEs recovery from mine tailings in Kiruna, Sweden [30]. A typical hydrometallurgical process employs leaching, followed by separation of metal ions in the resulting leachate either using precipitation or solvent extraction or a combination of these two.

Mine tailings

Reuse and recycling of mine tailings in whatever form is key to tailings minimization, which in turn is an important foundation to a global sustainable mining industry. Modern mines strive to recycle water and recent advances in filtered and stacked tailings technology (often referred to as dry stacking) are becoming more accepted and applied ...

Can rare earth elements be recovered from abandoned mine tailings …

Given the high impact of traditional mining, the recovery of rare earth elements (REEs) from hazardous waste materials could become an option for the future in accordance with the principles of the circular economy. In this work, the technical feasibility of REEs recovery from metal mine tailings has been explored using electrokinetic-assisted phytoremediation with …

Recycling and Reuse of Mine Tailings: A Review of …

In this scenario, recycling mine tailings can help reduce the number of tailings for disposal. Circular economy, recyclability, recycling, and reuse have been identified as emerging solutions that can drive the multidimensional as-pects of sustainability in the mining and metal extraction industries. As the residue is a

Recycling and Reuse of Mine Tailings: A Review of …

the population in its surroundings [1,13–15]. In this scenario, recycling mine tailings can help reduce the number of tailings for disposal. Circular economy, recyclability, recycling, and reuse have been identified as emerging solutions that can drive the multidimensional aspects of sustainability in the mining and metal extraction industries.

Recycling and Reuse of Mine Tailings

In this scenario, recycling mine tailings can help reduce the number of tailings for disposal. Circular economy, recyclability, recycling, and reuse have been identified as emerging solutions that can drive the multidimensional …

(PDF) Recycling strategies of mine tailing, and its …

This review paper critically explores available literature on the main techniques of mining tailing recycling, and discusses leading recycling technologies, including the benefits and...

MANAGEMENT OF TAILINGS: PAST, PRESENT AND …

change during the mine life • the tailings production rate and solids concentration which must be accommodated, and how these change during the mine life In Chile, by contrast, the climate is dry, but the ... • the need to manage, store, and recycle, when possible, supernatant tailings water • the need to minimise the risk of the release of

Recycling and Reuse of Mine Tailings: A Review …

In this scenario, recycling mine tailings can help reduce the number of tailings for disposal. Circular economy, recyclability, recycling, and reuse have been identified as emerging solutions that can drive the multidimensional aspects of …

Recycling Mine Tailings for a Sustainable Future Built Environment

When tailings contain sulphide minerals, it may also lead to acid mine drainage. This makes the effective and efficient recycling and reuse of mine waste a major environmental concern. However, the physical, mineralogical and chemical composition of the mine tailings renders it a suitable material for use in civil engineering applications.

(PDF) Recycling of mine tailings for the geopolymers …

The mining sector generates a considerable amount of waste stone and tailings, which constitute a ‎‎substantial hazard to the ecology. The most prevalent method of disposing of these industrial ‎‎wastes is by dumping, which adds to soil deterioration and water contamination and …

Recovery of Critical Metals from Mine Tailings | SpringerLink

Therefore, the aim was to obtain improved models for efficiently recycling metals from residues in selected case study mines, based, for the first time, on the manipulation of the microbiome existing within autochthonous tailings, using molecular data to promote the bioleaching bacterial populations, and innovative hydrometallurgy, using ...

Recycling Mine Tailings for a Sustainable Future Built …

The fine-grained mineral waste left after removal of valuable material from ore is called mine tailing and is the major waste of mining processes . This paper focuses on …

Recycling Mine Tailings for a Sustainable Future Built Environment

Applying new technologies and tailings reprocessing and recycling is becoming increasingly important in the mining industry (Maruthupandian et al., 2021; Vitti et al., 2022;Qaidi et al., 2022 ...

Recycling mine tailings as precursors for cementitious …

Decarbonisation policies will lead in the reduction of volumes of traditional SCMs. Tailings' chemical profile yield them suitable alternative cementitious materials. Systematic …

Tailings potential: recovering metals from mine waste streams

Environment Sustainability in Mining: Alkaline Metal Recycling . Reports. La Parrilla Tailings Project . Data Insights The gold standard of business intelligence. ... Jowett, who has been working in mine tailings research in the US and Australia for more than a decade, is leading a programme at the university to catalogue and characterise ...

Turning mine waste into value – sustainable …

Traditional methods of tailings and waste management must smarten up. This article explores smart strategies for turning mine waste into valuable resources, and helping improve sustainability, economic viability, …

A review of circular economy strategies for mine tailings

The biggest waste streams both in metal value and in volume in mining are tailings, which create long-term environmental liabilities to the companies (Wang et al., 2014) due to the potential for acid rock drainage generation (Simate and Ndlovu, 2014) from sulphidic tailings.Instead of considering the tailings only as an environmental challenge, the tailings …

Recycling and Reuse of Mine Tailings: A Review of

In this scenario, recycling mine tailings can help reduce the number of tailings for disposal. Circular economy, recyclability, recycling, and reuse have been identified as emerging solutions that can drive the multidimensional aspects of sustainability in the mining and metal extraction industries. As the residue is a heterogeneous, complex ...

From Tailings to Treasure? A New Mother Lode

New technology allows it to recover up to 40% of the gold left in particle form in tailings. DRD Gold extracted 33,600 ounces of gold, worth nearly US$40 million, in the last quarter of 2013. Mintails, a mine tailings processor, has developed new technology to process 350,000 tons of slimes from its extensive tailings resources.

(PDF) Recycling of mine tailings for the …

The mining sector generates a considerable amount of waste stone and tailings, which constitute a ‎‎substantial hazard to the ecology. The most prevalent method of disposing of these ...