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Estimation of soil porosity in mine tailing using parameters …

To estimate the properties of the samples obtained from the mine tailing dam (iron ore mining dam in Minnesota, USA), laboratory tests were conducted on three samples (MS1, MS2, and MS3). The laboratory tests included the specific gravity, particle size distribution, Atterberg limits, soil classification, X-ray fluorescence (XRF), and X-ray ...

A Guide to the Management of Tailings Facilities

A Guide to the Management of Tailings Facilities provides a basis for the development of customized tailings management systems that address the specific needs of indi-vidual …

An extensive review on restoration technologies for mining tailings

Tailing, in context to mining, is defined as the waste or non-economic by-product generated during mining activities, processing of minerals, and other materials that contain small amounts of residual valuable minerals, chemicals, water, and heavy metals (Adiansyah et al. 2015).Studies indicated that the process of mineral exploitation and …

How to manage tailings efficiently and economically

Tailings dewatering – The high capacity VPX™ from enables up to 90% water recovery in tailings, with a cake moisture content below 7%. IPS thickeners use less of flocculants, or ...

Global-scale impact analysis of mine tailings dam failures: …

Marcopper mine, a copper mine in Philippines that failed in 1996, was the highest releaser of tailings per tonne of crude ore. We summarize the tailings released per tonne of crude ore according to ore type and time in Supplementary Table 7. Table 2 shows the integration of primary ore production data with the tailings runout of 25 incidents ...

Numerical Simulation of Geophysical Models to Detect Mining …

The effective detection and monitoring of mining tailings' leachates (MTLs) plays a pivotal role in environmental protection and remediation efforts. Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) is a non-invasive technique widely employed for mapping subsurface contaminant plumes. However, the efficacy of ERT depends on selecting the optimal …

Physical, mechanical, cracking, and damage properties of mine …

The basic geotechnical characterizations of the MTs, which are shown in Table 1, included a low liquid limit (22.80%), a low plasticity ... Damage evaluation and deformation behavior of mine tailing-based Geopolymer under uniaxial cyclic compression. Ceram. Int., 47 (2021), pp. 10773-10785. View PDF View article View in Scopus Google …

Dynamic response characteristics of a tailing dam …

Upstream tailing dams, which are commonplace, can easily lead to major accidents under seismic excitation. However, the dynamic response characteristics and causes of instability failure of tailings dams are yet to be investigated fully. In the present study, shaking-table tests were conducted to determine the acceleration, pore pressure, …

Mine Tailing Particles: Roundness and Sphericity …

A typical mine tailing particle digital image is presented in Fig. ... Table 1 was used as an aid in assigning the mine tailing grains to a specific category. The average roundness value was 0.29, which corresponds to the subangular. These grains have slightly rounded corners and blunted edges due to the extraction process.

Mining and Water Pollution — Safe Drinking Water …

3. Processing Chemicals Pollution. This kind of pollution occurs when chemical agents (such as cyanide or sulphuric acid used by mining companies to separate the target mineral from the ore) spill, leak, or leach from the mine site into nearby water bodies. These chemicals can be highly toxic to humans and wildlife. 4.

Radioactive Waste From Uranium Mining and Milling | US EPA

Radiation Facts. Regardless of how uranium is removed from rock, the extraction process creates radioactive wastes. If not managed properly, mining waste and mill tailings can contaminate the environment. Uranium is a naturally-occurring radioactive element that has been mined and used for its chemical properties for more than a …

Mining tailings and alkali activation: a comprehensive …

Table 6 Publications that used gold mine tailings coupled with the alkali activation process (10 most cited) Full size table Finally, it is relevant to emphasize the importance of identifying the materials most used, as well as mapping the main research focuses, in order to allow the identification of gaps, areas, and research trends.

Geoenvironmental Characterization of Sulfide Mine Tailings

Spain has a long mining tradition dating from pre-historic times up to the present day. The cessation of mining activity has generated a large amount of mine wastes, most of which represent geochemical hazards. Mine tailings are watery sludge composed of medium-to-fine-grained material, resulting from grinding and mineral …

Recycling and Reuse of Mine Tailings: A Review of …

some types of mine waste, their classifications, and disposal options [30–33]. Table2shows the main applications of mine tailing identified in the articles. Table 1. Characterization of mining waste [30–33]. Types of Mining Waste Physical Classification of Residues Environmental Classification Disposal Options Rock waste …

Thickeners | Mining Tailings Dewatering

Thickener. 【Capacity】 1.3-1440 t/d. 【Application】 Thickener is suitable for dewatering concentrates and tailings in the mineral processing plant. It is widely used in metallurgy, chemical, coal, non-metal ore dressing, environmental protection, and other industries. The high-efficiency thickener is not only a liquid-solid separation ...

Risk Assessment of Heavy Metal in Farmlands and Crops Near Pb–Zn Mine

Table 4 shows that the concentrations of heavy metals in the water bodies did not exceed the national surface water quality ... Pan showed that the reason for the alkaline nature of the water in the Oxnard tailing pond mine is mainly related to the neutralizing and buffering effect of carbonate rock on the acidic wastewater produced by ...

Tailings | SpringerLink

1 Altmetric. Abstract. At nearly every metal mine site, some form of mineral processing occurs, and tailings are being produced. In metal mining, the extracted ore …

Technological characterization of kaolin tailing from small …

The tailing produced in the plant was characterized by chemical, mineralogical and size analyses, Atterberg tests and whiteness methods. The chemical composition of the feed, tailings and kaolin product was determined by atomic absorption spectrometry and the average results are shown in Table 1.The essential minerals are …

Life cycle cost estimation and environmental valuation of coal mine …

Tailings, categorized as mine waste, are among the materials that might contribute to environmental contamination, as presented in Table 1. In coal mining, tailings are generated from fine coal, which represents about 10–20% of the Coal Handling and Preparation Plant (CHPP) feed (Honaker et al., 2013, Kumar et al., 2014). There are two …

Spatial distribution and risk assessment of pollutants in a …

Cyanide and potentially toxic elements in tailings from gold mining can cause serious pollution, and harm the surrounding environment through rainfall seepage and leakage from tailings ponds. In this study, 40 surface soil samples were collected from the Liujiadian tailings pond basin in Pinggu District, Beijing, and the contents of cyanide, Sb, …

The Tailings Center

Sustainable management of mine waste requires an experienced and multidisciplinary team of trained engineers to design, construct, operate and monitor Tailings Storage Facilities (TSF) from conceptualization through closure. Historically, tailings engineers have received on-the-job training in mine waste management. There is a critical need to build …

Characterization and Potential Usage of Stabilized Mine …

Similarly when mine tailing is mixed with 8% lime, there is an increase in strength but not as significant as observed with cement mixed tailings (see Table 7, mix IDMT/8/0/0). However when mine tailing is mixed with cement, lime, and fly ash, maximum UCS value was about 1801.17 kN/m 2 after 28 days curing period and 3857.06 kN/m 2 …

Tailings facility failures in the global mining industry: …

Open Access. Tailings facility failures in the global mining industry: Will a 'transparency turn' drive change? Deanna Kemp, John R. Owen, Éléonore Lèbre. First published: 06 August 2020. …

Evaluation of heavy metal contamination in copper mine tailing …

The PERI associated with each HM in mine waste soil analysed in the present study showed that all heavy metals had low ecological risk at the tailing dams of Kitwe and Mufulira (Table 6).

Work accidents which become disasters: mine tailing dam …

The recent Vale S.A. dam failure in 2019 is one of the most serious work accidents ever in Brazil and is becoming a milestone for mining risk management systems in the country. It is characterized as an incident with irreversible and hard-to-manage intensive and direct impacts on workers and extensive impacts in space and time.

Leaching of heavy metals from abandoned mine tailings …

The dynamic leaching of heavy metals from mine tailings and their subsequent transport in soils were investigated in two coupled up-flow columns (Fig. 1), according to Method 1314 of the USEPA (USEPA, 2013).Specifically, column I was used to investigate the release behaviors of heavy metals from the mine tailing by infiltrating …

Gravity Separation of Zinc Mine Tailing Using Shaking Table …

Since hematite and dolomite particles have different densities, 5.25 and 2.87 g/cm 3, respectively, and that method requires less energy, this paper aims to concentrate hematite from a zinc mining tailing composed of 3% SiO 2, 7% Fe 2 O 3, and 90% CaMg(CO 3) 2 through gravity separation using shaking table.

Tailings.info What Are Tailings?

Introduction. Tailings consist of ground rock and process effluents that are generated in a mine processing plant. Mechanical and chemical processes are used to extract the desired product from the run of the mine ore and produce a waste stream known as tailings. This process of product extraction is never efficient, nor is it possible to ...

Global Tailings Portal

This portal brings together all of the disclosures that mining companies have made about their tailings storage facilities. It gives communities, investors, regulators and the media unprecedented access to information about mine waste. 107. 311. 762. 1863.

Mine tailings dams: Characteristics, failure, environmental impacts

Tailings are mixtures of crushed rock and processing fluids from mills, washeries or concentrators that remain after the extraction of economic metals, minerals, mineral fuels or coal from the mine resource (e.g., Fig. 1 a; Hudson-Edwards et al., 2001, Younger and Wolkersdorfer, 2004, Lottermoser, 2007).The word 'tailings' is generic as it …