theacademic11h
Bitumen tailings spills in Canada and the failure of monitoring and management
The Alberta Energy Regulator denies impacts from 514 tailings spills. Yet, photos show contamination, dead wildlife, and ...
Mining Weekly27d
Optimised PFS for Sovereign’s Kasiya delivers positive results
Moreover, Sovereign notes that, per the 2023 PFS, a conventional process would be used to produce rutile and graphite concentrate with tailings in separate sand and fines streams being pumped to a ...
C&EN5d
Microwave-Assisted Remediation of Nonaqueous Oil Sand Gangue: Effects of Solvent, Fines, and Water Content
Fine particles have a significantly larger specific surface area than coarse solids. For example, clay particles (<4 μm) exhibit a specific surface area up to 10 times higher than medium sand (200–300 ...
The Australian3d
BHP mine shows how tailings can become a climate change-fighting ‘superpower’
Arca – founded by University of British Columbia researchers – uses mining tailings to absorb greenhouse gases via a process similar to corrosion, chief executive Paul Needham said.
CBC.ca22d
Indigenous leaders say lack of oversight on tailings spills a danger to water rights
Research published earlier this month in the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment journal says the "AER's stated policy of 'routine inspections' following tailings spills is not supported by ...
The Straits Times26d
Meet Sand-E the robot, developed by SUTD students to ‘walk’ on sand and pick up trash
Dubbed Sand-E, the beach cleaning robot was developed by 27 students from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). The team had wanted to come up with a solution to assist ...