Managing tailings - sans water

Alfa Laval’s technology, used with success at an Australian mine, could erase the need for the common tailings dam for many mines. Donna Schmidt reports

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Dry technologies are gaining ground in the mining industry as a replacement for more expensive (and less safe) tailings ponds

For many mines, the existence of a tailings dam or tailings storage facility is just a given.