Multicolored waste rocks and tailings from mining near abandoned open pit Memi mine in Xyliatos Cyprus This area is rich with copper and sulphide de ID 2F5A2BK RF Tailings at Bluebird Copper Mine open pit mine operated by Freeport McMoRan Copper Gold seen from Gila Pinal Scenic Road near Miami Arizona USA
Get PriceOn the 25th September 1970 an underground breach of a tailings dam occurred at the Mufulira Mine in Zambia As the night shift crew were on duty the tailings dam above them collapsed causing nearly 1 million tonnes of tailings to fill the mine workings killing 89 miners A sinkhole opened on the surface allowing surface water to continue to
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Get PriceAbstract Copper mining the central axis of Chile s economic development produces a large number of tailings which become a potential environmental risk This study aims to evaluate the mechanical properties resulting from the making of Portland cement mixtures with tailings as aggregates so that they can be eventually used in paving stones
Get PriceCopper can be found in the urban mine which is made up of items such as electronic goods buildings mine tailings and waste Urban Mining is an important element of the circular economy as it returns the collection of discarded products and secondary raw materials to the market By treating waste as a resource Urban Mining—along with
Get Price2024 Songpan county China A tailings dam was damaged by landslides caused by heavy rain The tailings displaced 272 people and washed into the Fujiang River leaving 200 000 people without drinking water 2024 Kolontár Hungary A tailings dam storing waste from bauxite mining collapsed due to heavy rain
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Get PriceTailings from porphyry copper mines contain environmentally harmful amounts of elements such as copper molybdenum lead and cobalt Geostatistical simulation of contaminants at unknown locations can be helpful in taking preventive measures for tailings management In the presence of spatially cross correlated variables cosimulation has been the traditional method of evaluation However
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Get PriceThe Grasberg mine has one of the largest reserves of gold and copper in the world It is located in Mimika Regency Central Papua Indonesia near Puncak Jaya the highest mountain in the is operated by PT Freeport Indonesia PTFI see below a joint venture between the government of Indonesia government of Papua and the American company Freeport McMoRan FCX
Get PriceThe Highland Valley Copper mine is the largest open pit copper mine in Canada located near Logan Lake British Columbia It is an amalgamation of three historic mining operations Bethlehem later Valley Copper Lornex and Highmont million tonnes of tailings pumped in 2024 with two containment embankments to retain the tailings
Get PriceTailings Copper Mountain takes tailings management seriously and prioritizes safety transparency and accountability Our tailings operations achieved a AA rating under TSM protocols and we are confident in our long term reclamation plan to return the site to its natural state
Get PriceAn open pit mine in sub Saharan Africa is operating in a jurisdiction where relations are tense there is artisanal mining and water is always an issue The tailings dam seems sound for the moment but may become an issue in the years to come Communities live downstream from both the pit and tailings dam and allegations of pollution are routine
Get PriceMoreover specifically in copper mines tailings can count for 95% to 99% of the crushed and ground ores Edraki et al 2024 Copper mine tailings have a high concentration of heavy metals and metalloids and when exposed to oxygen and moisture the pyrite iron sulfide oxidates causing the acid mine drainage
Get PriceHighland tailings facility at Highland Valley Copper operation AFPRs are conducted each year by a third party Engineer of Record for mine tailings facilities in order to summarize the past year s information into a concise review documenting the safe operation maintenance and surveillance of the facility and to identify and make any
Get PriceTailings Slurry pipelines are commonly used to transfer mine residue from the processing plant to the tailings storage facility Historically these pipelines were designed to operate at low solids concentrations however as dewatering technology improved and solids concentrations increased residue disposal systems have become significantly more complex Designing an effective residue and
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Get PriceVargas and Lopez reported that copper mine tailings when used as a supplementary cementitous material improved the mortar strength Malagon et al [ 26 ] used 7% of coal mining waste as a raw material for production of cement clinker and observed a 9 14% decrease in strength due to hindering of hydration by the Cu ions present in the mine waste
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Get PriceAfter 90 years of mining in Flin Flon Man Hudbay Minerals TSX HBM NYSE HBM last operation in the area the 777 zinc copper underground mine will process its last ore this year But the company s tailings facilities which store more than 100 million tonnes of material will live on
Get PriceStudy for the Copper Mountain Mine CMM Tailings Management Facility TMF The TMF includes two dams an East Dam and a West Dam The objective of the study is to predict the The Copper Mountain Mine operated by CMML is located approximately 15km southwest of Princeton in south central British Columbia The project area is situated
Get PriceThe Highland Valley Copper Mine is located just outside the town of Kamloops in British Columbia Canada The mine produces copper 435 000 tonnes in 2024 and molybdenum 6405 tonnes in 2024 concentrates The tailings pumped to the Valley Impoundment in 2024 were million tonnes
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Get PriceBHP Tailings Challenge progresses to lab testing phase Posted by Daniel Gleeson on 25th January 2024 Ten companies and consortia have been selected to advance to the laboratory test stage of the BHP Tailings Challenge which is seeking solutions and new business models to reuse copper tailings The company s call was launched on June
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Get PriceAccording to research by mineral processing firm Metso the quantity of tailings generated each year by the copper industry alone amounts to billion tonnes and iron ore production adds a further billion tonnes
Get PriceMar 30 2022Traditionally considered waste tailings are just one of a number of by products generated by the mining industry which are now being assessed for their economic value For the uninitiated tailings are created as ore is crushed ground and treated to extract the valuable metals or minerals within
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Get PriceTwo BoVac Disc filters L176 are operated in a Gold/Copper Mine in Bulgaria for the filtration of flotation tailings which are used for mine backfill The dewatered and discharged filter cake is mixed with cement and pumped back to the underground to fill the galleries For this special application the filtered tailings need to have a certain residual moisture to ensure constant conditions for
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