As the world's largest producer of refined copper, China accounts for about 1/3 of the world's production. At present, China's refined copper is mainly produced by pyrometallurgy [1,2,3].The annual discharge of copper slag exceeds 10 million tons according to the calculation of 2.2 tons of copper slag per ton of refined copper …

Grudinsky et al. (2021) and Wan et al. (2021) studied sulfation roasting, followed by extraction with water, of respectively tailings of copper slag processing and copper slags and found technical ...

Ores that contain copper in the U.S. are typically mined in large, open-pits. Copper processing facilities are usually located near mining or extraction sites. ... extraction of copper by surface or underground methods can concentrate and expose radionuclides in the waste rock and tailings tailingsThe remaining portion of a metal …

TSF near Taltal (Google Earth) with drilling locations. The tailings have their maximum thickness (15 m) in the northern area (TT 122 to TT 124), where samples were taken up to a depth of 11 m and ...

The relatively high efficiency of copper bioleaching from the CLC tailings was unexpected given that much of this metal (68%) was deported in two minerals …

Highlights • Environmental impacts of copper tailings reprocessing in the EU are quantified. • Future scenario narratives are leveraged to create prospective life cycle …

The properties of copper tailings, a fine-grained residue waste produced from beneficiation of copper ore, and their effects on the properties of bituminous mix were studied by …

of tailings sources were identified, such as lead, zinc, copper from overload, rock wa ste, processing tailings, metallu rgical slag, and w ater treatment residuals, among others . It

Large amounts of silver, copper, molybdenum, chromium, cobalt and other metals were recovered, according to Cassidy, who developed the DRAM technology some years earlier. ... The type of extraction method that can be used on mine waste depends on the mineral deposits the tailings come from and what processing approach was used …

Copper mine operations consistently generate a large quantity of tailings after their concentration processing. These tailings are either piled up or stored in a dam, where both alternatives of disposal lead to environmental impacts. The dam copper tailings have a huge potential for by-product production thus improving sustainability …

Contamination of heavy metals from mill tailings is a global problem. China's Jinchuan Group Limited has stored approximately one billion tons of mill tailings which contain toxic levels of copper, nickel, and other metal compounds. To solve the problem, this work extended the principle of hydrometallurgical extraction to the recovery of copper/nickel …

As copper tailings appear in ground form, the grading of copper tailings reported by Gupta and Thomas (2013) and Nitish et al. (2013) has a sizeable silt fraction of 0.06–0.002 mm. Copper tailings are considered to be finer than CS, which usually has a dominant sand fraction. Table 6.5 compares the geotechnical properties of copper tailings to …

There is an estimated total of 217,330,652,000 m 3 of tailings in storage globally, with copper accounting for ... its "more energy-efficient process to extract copper from regular- and lower ...

A lot of operational and closed tailings facilities have residual mineral values that might not have been of interest in earlier times. With advent of novel technologies, mining companies are now figuring out ways to extract …

According to research by mineral processing firm , the quantity of tailings generated each year by the copper industry alone amounts to 2.9 billion …

Up to 20% is saved when we use copper ore tailings instead of Portland cement. The copper tailings produced in this way have good strength and durability characteristics. ... Pramusanto, P.; Hermana, F.A. The research of gold processing from tailings of iron sand processing from South Kalimantan by using amalgamation …

Mineral commodities commonly recovered in the United States are copper, gold, silver, iron, lead, zinc, uranium and coal. The commodity, as a product, is sold and used to fabricate many things such as parts for a car, electrical cable for energy transmission and jewelry. ... After processing, tailings are impounded so that their effect on the ...

The flotation tailings obtained from Bor Copper Mine contain pyrite (FeS2) and chalcopyrite (CuFeS2), these sulfide minerals are known to promote acid mine drainage (AMD) which poses a serious threat to the environment and human health. This study focuses on the treatment of mine tailings to convert the AMD supporting minerals …

Visualizing the Size of Mine Tailings. On January 25th, 2019, a 10-meter tall wave traveling 120 km/h, washed 10 million m 3 of mining waste from the Brumadinho tailings dam over the Brazilian countryside killing somewhere between 270 and 320 people.. This was a manmade disaster, made from mining the materials we use daily. …

XRD analysis identified quartz, pyrite and gypsum, but no copper minerals, in CLC tailings. Other data, provided by Francisco Sánchez Ruiz (Cobre Las Cruces, S.A.), showed that most (60%) of copper in these tailings was deported in chalcopyrite, with smaller amounts present in covellite (18%), tetrahedrite (12.5%), enargite (8%) and …

The main chemical reagents used in the metallurgical flotation process of copper sulphide minerals and present in copper mining tailings are presented below [2,47]. The following types of reagents are disclosed: (i) acids, (ii) alkalis or pH regulators, (iii) modifiers, (iv) collectors, (v) ing agents, and (vi) flocculants ( Table 1 ).

The 12-month ReTail project, in partnership with CPI, aims to establish the feasibility and environmental impact of processing tailings from Altilium's site in Europe to extract copper, aluminium and other battery materials for use in the UK EV battery supply chain (for example, to produce copper foils for use as current collectors).

Flotation is a common mineral processing method used to upgrade copper sulfide ores; in this method, copper sulfide mineral particles are concentrated in froth, and associated gangue minerals are ...

The remaining 10% of copper, around 111kt, went to tailings. If the average copper price in 1999 was US$1,500/tonne then that 10% represented US$166.5 million of metal. ... there are now some cases where the reprocessing of tailings works out cheaper than processing material.

Copper tailings are produced from different mines, and thus it is important to fully characterize the quality and quantity of copper tailings at each site. ... Feasibility of re-processing mine tailings to obtain critical raw materials using real options analysis. J. Environ. Manag., 284 (2021), Article 112060, 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112060 ...

Worldwide, an issue of copper production is the generation of mine waste with varying characteristics. This waste can pollute natural environments, and in particular, the heavy metal emissions of the tailings may pose long-term consequences. Currently, life cycle assessments of mine tailings are hampered by both limited data availability in the …

This study aims to investigate the potential of mechanical–electrical dewatering (EDW) on the recovery of process water from tailings slurry of Miduk copper mine.

Today, the supply deficit of copper, its high price, the need for environmental remediation and the maturity of reprocessing technologies have facilitated increased interest in recovering these …

largest volume of tailings, 46 per cent, is produced from copper mining (Figures 4 and 5). The precise number of active tailings storage facilities is currently unknown. Although incomplete, the Global Tailings Portal (see the chapters by Franks et al. and Barrie et al., this volume), which includes information

copper tailings during the copper mineral separation process [2, 5, 7]. According to the statistics, up to 2007, the total discharge of copper tailings nationwide was about 2.4 bil-lion tonnes, and the annual production has been increasing year by year [11]. Due to the wide variability of physical and chemical prop-