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Oil Sands Tailings What Needs to be Done

The fine tailings settle in about two years to form mature fine tailings a fluid tailings about 33% solids content which is almost all fines The CHWE process uses caustic NaOH or

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Frontiers Effect of Iron Tailings and Slag Powders on Workability and

Tailings are one of the largest solid wastes in stock at present In order to improve the comprehensive utilization rate of tailings especially to solve the problems of fine grained tailings treatment the concrete composite admixture was prepared by using iron tailings powder and slag powder In order to study the influence of iron tailings powder on the workability and long term mechanical

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Registration Tailings and Mine Waste Conference Series

The Tailings and Mine Waste Conference 2024 will be an interactive forum for sharing research challenges and the latest advancements in the mining industry Register Here Registration Options Early Bird Until October 21 Regular October 22 November 9 Presenter/Author $950

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Tailings management Suncor

Oil sands tailings are the sand water clay silt and residual bitumen that remain after the majority of the oil is extracted from mined ore Tailings are stored in tailings ponds with engineered dams on our oil sands sites On this page Treating and reclaiming tailings Tailings management regulations Dam safety and integrity

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Frontiers Numerical Analysis of Sand Bed Degrading and Sediment

Dam breaking accidents in tailings ponds may result in loss of tailings damage to the downstream bridges and houses flooding of farmland and roads hazards to the local environment and even loss of property and lives Therefore research on dam breaks in tailings reservoirs and prediction of subsequent impacts are of great significance This paper describes theoretical and numerical

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What Are Tailings Ponds Environmental Impact Alberta Oil Sands CAPP

In oil sands mining operations tailings are a mixture of water sand clay and residual bitumen and are the by product of the extraction process used to separate the oil from sand and clay Tailings and tailings ponds are not unique to the oil sands they are used throughout Alberta and around the world in mining and other industrial processes

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What Are Tailings Their nature and production

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

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What are Tailings Society for Mining Metallurgy Exploration

Typically mill tailings range from sand to silt clay in particle size Ore is material that contains a mineral commodity of value required to sustain modern life Mineral commodities commonly recovered in the United States are copper gold silver iron lead zinc uranium and coal

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Mechanical Properties of Tailings Sample with Different Hindawi

In order to explore the variation of the mechanical behavior of tailings in a tailings pond in Hunan Province with the number of dry and wet cycles under different initial water content conditions the tailings sand samples with moisture content of % % % % and % were subjected to 0 to 6 times of moisture absorption

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Geopolymer Bricks Using Iron Ore Tailings Slag Sand IntechOpen

However for non fired green bricks which can be made by using industrial wastes materials to be used includes iron ore tailings IOT slag sand fly ash and ground granulated blast furnace slag GGBS which can replace good brick earth of similar constituents [ 4 ]

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Tailings Management Alberta Energy Regulator

New Requirements We used the TMF to create Directive 085 Fluid Tailings Management for Oil Sands Mining Projects Directive 085 replaced the former Directive 074 Tailings Performance Criteria and Requirements for Oil Sands Mining Directive 074 was first introduced to slow the growth of tailings ponds by creating standard requirements for all projects

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Mixing iron tailing sand and machine made sand to prepare concrete

1 Cement P· Ordinary Portland Cement

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Potential Human Health Effects of Uranium Mining Processing and

Many of the findings related to occupational exposures and adverse health outcomes presented in this chapter are based on studies of uranium and hard rock miners worker based radon studies for periods of disease risk when the magnitude of the exposures was much greater than the exposures reported at most mines and processing facilities in North America today Nevertheless although

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Tailings 101 Understanding Tailings Canada s Oil Sands Innovation

Q What are tailings Tailings are the processed materials left over after open pit mining They are a liquid mixture made up of mostly sand some water and clay and traces of residual bitumen an oil mix The clay and water typically separate from the sand to form a material called fluid tailings which has a yogurt like consistency

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Canadian Natural Resources Managing Tailings

Tailings are a mixture of water sand and clay found naturally in oil sands that remain following the mining extraction process Tailings are transported by pipeline and deposited into ponds where the majority of the solids mostly sand settle to the bottom The remaining fluid water and clay is called Fluid Tailings FT

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Tailings Alberta Energy Regulator

Tailings Management Framework In March 2024 the Government of Alberta released the Lower Athabasca Region Tailings Management Framework for Mineable Athabasca Oil Sands TMF The framework says that all fluid tailings should be ready to reclaim within ten years of the end of a mine s life We used the TMF to create Directive 085

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Geotechnical Properties of Mine Tailings Journal of Materials in

Based on the testing results of Atterberg limits and grain size distribution the two coarse tailings are classified as silty sand SM and the two fine tailings are classified as sandy lean clay CL according to the Unified Soil Classification System ASTM 2011a Table 1 Geotechnical Properties of Coarse and Fine Tailings Table 1

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Oil Sands Tailings Pond microbewiki Kenyon College

along with the 20 30 wt% of solids sands and clays and slightly alkaline water ph> mature tailings consist of 1 3 wt% of residual bitumen and naphtha comprising of a mixture paraffins n alkanes iso paraffins branched alkanes olefins alkenes naphthenes cycloalkanes olefins naphthenic acids cyclopentyl and cyclohexyl …

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Vale s Sustainable Sand to impact tailings generation plans

The UNEP report 2024 in which the Vale Sand Case has been studied shows that substituting naturally sourced sand with ore sand sand from iron ore tailings could potentially lead to net reductions in carbon emissions generated during sand production The substitution of marine or riverine sand for ore sand could also lead to a reduction in

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Mine tailings How to effectively manage the risk

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 The risk register process raises the requirement for information about water and associated geology from various sources

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Tailings Paterson Cooke

Tailings 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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Tailings Alberta Energy Regulator

Tailings are made of sand silt clay water and some residual bitumen Your browser can t play this video Learn more Watch on How Tailings Are Stored Companies store tailings in human made tailings ponds which they surround with monitoring systems Once tailings are in the pond most tailings components quickly separate from the water

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Tailings Water Management McLanahan

They can consist of a combination of the chemicals used to extract the valuable rock as well as the process water metals minerals and/or other organic elements generated from production depending on the ore that was mined Because tailings have no financial gain for the producer they are usually stored in the most cost effective way

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Adding bacteria can make concrete greener The Economist

A cubic metre of typical concrete thus requires 100 120kg of rebar at a cost of around a dollar a kilogram According to Bart van der Woerd Basilisk s boss adding 5kg of Basilisk s pellets

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Cycloned Copper Tailings Sands Practical Methods for KCB

This paper provides insight into the link between design parameters and quality control QC testing programs to inform future engineering designs Whitehead J and A Witte 2024 Cycloned Copper Tailings Sands Practical Methods for Benchmarking Design Parameters in Proceedings of Tailings and Mine Waste 2024 17 20 November 2024

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Tailings Solvent Recovery Units Oil Sands Magazine

A Tailings Solvent Recovery Unit TSRU is used to strip off and recycle any residual solvent prior to disposing the tailings in a storage pond A Paraffinic Froth Treatment PFT facility produces a tailings stream that contains water asphaltenes fines solids bitumen and residual solvent Solvent content in the tailings can vary between 5

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Tailings Ponds 101 Oil Sands Magazine

Tailings ponds are lined with compacted sand and a layer of fine clay The clay has a low permeability rate which helps prevent tailings water from seeping into the groundwater Vertical pumping wells are installed around the perimeter of the tailings dyke or dam These wells serve to monitor the quality of the groundwater and any seepage

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5 methods of gold mine tailings treatment and comprehensive recovery

With the advancement of beneficiation technology zinc iron sulfur and other elements gold mine tailings can be recycled in addition to gold and silver and valuable elements can also be comprehensively recovered according to the nature of the tailings

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Tailings Wikipedia

In mining tailings are the materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction of an are distinct from overburden which is the waste rock or other material that overlies an ore or mineral body and is displaced during mining without being The extraction of minerals from ore can be done two ways placer mining which

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China s recent tailings leak the worst in 20 years

China s environment ministry said on Monday that a tailings breach last month at the country s largest molybdenum mine was the worse environmental disaster in almost 20 years The spillage on

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