A civil engineering research team has developed a new way to clean oil sands process affected water and reclaim tailings ponds in Alberta's oil sands industry. Using sunlight as a renewable energy ...

Mintek Minerals Processing division head of flotation Kevin Pillay discusses the organisation’s new Reflaut tailing retreatment process. Camerawork and Editing: Nicholas Boyd. JOHANNESBURG ...

While a commodities boom is welcome news for the industry, it also poses significant challenges - including how to handle much higher volumes of mine waste. We are all familiar with the operational ...

University of Queensland researchers have developed an innovative method to turn mine tailings into healthy soil. “We have basically taken engineering solutions into the context of natural soil ...

With the successful monitoring of over a dozen tailings storage facilities (TFSs) across Southern Africa in its portfolio, real-time monitoring and alerting solutions provider Insight Terra ...

HOYT LAKES, Minn. — Of the bad things that could happen once PolyMet starts running Minnesota’s first-ever copper mine, critics say, among the worst would be a catastrophic breach of the tailings ...

Cleaning up oil sands tailings has just gotten a lot greener thanks to a novel technique developed by University of Alberta civil engineering professors that uses solar energy to accelerate tailings ...

Edmonton—Cleaning up oil sands tailings has just gotten a lot greener thanks to a novel technique developed by University of Alberta civil engineering professors that uses solar energy to accelerate ...