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Iron oxide particles recovered from AMD can be applied as adsorbents for the removal of pollutants from wastewater and for the fabrication of effective catalysts for heterogeneous …
New lithium extraction method could reuse fracking wastewater
Scientists have discovered a new and efficient way of extracting lithium and other minerals from water, including wastewater from hydraulic fracturing. Robert Scammell February 12, 2018. Technological advances have caused lithium demand to increase rapidly in recent years. Credit: Dnn87 via Wikipedia.
[PDF] Minimizing beneficiation wastewater through internal reuse …
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118898 Corpus ID: 211462095; Minimizing beneficiation wastewater through internal reuse of process water in flotation circuit @article{Shangyong2020MinimizingBW, title={Minimizing beneficiation wastewater through internal reuse of process water in flotation circuit}, author={Lin Shangyong and Run-qing …
A comparative study for the removal of mining wastewater …
Mining is one of the basic sectors of the world-wide economy. World iron ore production in 2011 reached 2.9 billion tons (U.S.G.S., 2013) and the number of deposits with low iron content is continuously increasing, which forces the mining companies to increase the froth flotation process that is the most used method for iron ore beneficiation ...
Improved recovery selectivity of rare earth elements from mining …
The desorption efficiencies of REEs were > 80.0% 4 after 4 reuse cycles. Abstract. ... while a major challenge, is urgently required to purify rare earth ore mining wastewater and thus facilitate the reuse of ... (II) from mining wastewater by carbon@nano-zero-valent iron (C@nZVI) derived from biosynthesis. Sep. Purif. …
Prospects of metal recovery from wastewater and brine
Recovering metals from wastewater and brine could augment metal stocks that are fundamental to modern technology. This Perspective assesses the potential of, …
Wastewater Treatment for the Mining Industry | Fluence
Smart Packaged Aspiral ™, EcoBox ™, and NIROBOX ™ systems from Fluence can protect local freshwater sources by treating and reusing mining wastewater for landscaping, irrigation, dust control, and even drinking water. This reduces wastewater-disposal expenses and protects local water sources while meeting the most stringent …
Electrocoagulation: A Promising Method to Treat and Reuse …
Mineral processing wastewater contains large amounts of reagents which can lead to severe environmental problems, such as high chemical oxygen demand (COD). Inspired by the wastewater treatment in such industries as those of textiles, food, and petrochemistry, in the present work, electrocoagulation (EC) is applied for the first time to explore its …
Cyanobacteria efficiently extract rare earths from mine wastewater
Iron Ore; Rare Earth; ... presents an economically and ecologically optimized process for the circular recovery and reuse of rare earth metals from diluted industrial wastewater from the mining ...
Rio Tinto to co-fund Finnish solution to recover critical
The firms' Intelligent Recovery Unit (IRU) project received funding from Rio Tinto Group's sustainable water treatment challenge program, which may give them up to $2 million of co-funding ...
The Challenges of Reusing Mining and Mineral-Processing …
Residual mining wastes after reuse or resource recovery are typically discarded at specific sites such as tailing ponds. If wastes are not disposed of properly, …
Developing a sustainable water and wastewater …
They concluded that improvements in iron ore mining and direct water consumption are vital in water reduction. Leenes et al. found a high WF of electricity production in a steel mill. So their recommendation for reducing WF was to replace energy sources with sources of lower WF, such as solar, wind, and geothermal energy. ...
Resource Utilization of Iron Ore Tailings to Recover SiO
Iron ore tailings (IOTs) are an important solid waste in the mining industry, which can pollute the environment and endanger human health. However, the disposal and high value-added utilization of iron tailings have always been a challenge. Notably, superconducting high-gradient magnetic separation (S-HGMS) technology is a promising …
Treatment technologies for sustainable management of …
Present strategy for the management of wastewater from iron and steel plants includes conventional methods of wastewater treatment such as sedimentation to …
Mining Phosphate from Wastewater: Treatment and …
Recovery of phosphorus from mining wastewater could reduce the dependency on the global phosphate rock market [3]. Phosphate is an inorganic salt of phosphoric acid and found naturally as a phosphate rock [34, 52]. Phosphate can be found both as phosphate rock and potash ore. Phosphate rock is an igneous rock containing
CSIRO develops new treatment for removing contaminants from mining
In current processes, the mining industry generally adds lime to the wastewater to purify it. While often effective, the key issue with this method has been the volume of sludge that forms and the ...
Tailings potential: recovering metals from mine waste streams
In 2022, her company Nibeenabe piloted its device for remediation and attenuation of multiple pollutants (DRAM) technology to filter the tailings from a Madre de Dios mine extracting commodities that would otherwise be wasted. Large amounts of silver, copper, molybdenum, chromium, cobalt and other metals were recovered, according to …
An overview of treatment techniques to remove ore flotation …
Reuse water can affect the recovery efficiency of ore flotation. •. This is due to interferents in the water such as ions and partially degraded flotation reagents. •. This …
Improved recovery selectivity of rare earth elements from mining …
The mining of ion-adsorption rare earth minerals or ores generated a large amount of wastewater containing rare earth elements at low-concentration, resulting in continuous environmental pollution. For this problem, our study prepared an efficient, recyclable MgO/MgFe 2 O 4 magnetic adsorbent, synthesized by a template method and …
Geosciences | Free Full-Text | Recycling and Reuse …
Mining is an important industry, accounting for 6.9% of global GDP. However, global development promotes accelerated demand, resulting in the accumulation of hazardous waste in land, sea, and air …
Mining wastewater treatment technologies and resource …
Some of the steps taken by legal mining industries to mitigate environmental pollution include the treatment of mine sludge and mining wastewater, reusing treated mining wastewater for recovery purposes, and following discharge limit guidelines.
Minimizing beneficiation wastewater through internal reuse …
Residual amine in iron ore flotation. Miner. Eng. (2008) Ö. ... Overall, treating mining wastewater contaminated with collectors can contribute to reduce water consumption in the mining industry, benefiting environmental engineering efforts. ... Treatment and water reuse of lead-zinc sulphide ore mill wastewaters by high rate …
Global research progress on mining wastewater
Global research progress on mining wastewater treatment: a bibliometric analysis. Aqib Zahoor a, Guozhu Mao a, Xinming Jia a, Xiao Xiao b and Jian Lin Chen * cde a School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300350, China b Department of Infrastructure Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information …
Recycling and Reuse of Mine Tailings | Encyclopedia MDPI
Recycling and Reuse of Mine Tailings. This entry is adapted from the peer-reviewed paper 10.3390/geosciences12090319. Mining is an important industry, accounting for 6.9% of global GDP. However, global development promotes accelerated demand, resulting in the accumulation of hazardous waste in land, sea, and air environments.
Developing a sustainable water and wastewater …
The results indicated that the scenario of wastewater reuse from nearby cities achieved the highest priority due to its significant impact on reducing blue WF (by …
Membrane distillation and ion exchange combined process for mining …
This study intended to simultaneously treat and recover water for reuse, sulfuric acid, and copper from gold mining wastewater, from an innovative integrated system of membrane distillation (MD ...
Membrane distillation and dispersive solvent extraction in …
Membrane distillation (MD) and dispersive liquid–liquid extraction (d-LLE) were integrated for gold mining wastewater beneficiation and better use of natural resources.MD presented an average permeate flux of 5.51 ± 0.14 L/m 2 ·h, without a significant flux decay (p < 0.001), and rejection efficiencies for acid and metallic …
(PDF) Wastewater Characteristics, Management and Reuse in Mining …
The main sources of wastewater from a mine site can be broadly classified into: • • • • Mine water; Process wastewater; Domestic wastewater; Surface run-off. The most probable contaminants in the wastewater produced by a typical mining industry can be broadly classified into 5 categories and are listed in Table 1.
Reuse of Mine and Ore Washing Wastewater in Scheelite …
@article{Gaogui2022ReuseOM, title={Reuse of Mine and Ore Washing Wastewater in Scheelite Flotation Process to Protect Freshwater: Lab to Industrial Scale}, author={Jing Gaogui and Jianjun Wang and Wei Sun and Stephen Pooley and Dejin Liao and Zhizhong Shi and Qian Chen and Gao Zhiyong}, journal={SSRN Electronic Journal}, year={2022}, …
Recycling and Reuse of Mine Tailings: A Review of …
Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +1-519-824-4120 (ext. 52902) Abstract: Mining is an important industry, accounting for 6.9% of global GDP. However, global development promotes accelerated demand, resulting in the accumulation of hazardous waste in land, sea, and air environments.