Environmental issues associated with tailings management have made it the most daunting
challenge faced by the mining industry. To dispose mineral tailings in a technical …

There are various existing practices and future potential for turning mining waste into
valuable products. The inventory of the tailings in the metal mines in Finland showed that …

Current management of mining waste is based on linear economy thinking. However, the
use of mining waste as a raw material resource can be one solution to the limited metal …

Cemented paste backfill (CPB) has been one of the best practical approaches for tailings
management and underground goaf treatment. Paste rheology is a science to study the flow …

With an increasing number of low-grade primary ores starting to be cost-effectively mined,
we are at the verge of mining a myriad of low-grade primary and secondary mineral …

The health risks of lead-zinc (Pb–Zn) tailings from heavy metal (HMs) contamination have
been gaining increasing public concern. The dispersal of HMs from tailings poses a …

One of the advantages of cement and the cement concrete industry in sustainability is the
ability to utilize large amounts of industrial solid wastes such as fly ash and ground …

Quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D) has been proven to be a
powerful research tool to investigate in situ interactions between nanoparticles and different …

The re-processing of mine tailings to obtain critical raw materials (CRMs) could reduce the
mining of new deposits as well as ensure the profitable use of the waste materials. Though …

To improve the flowability of ultrafine-tailings cemented paste backfill (UTCPB) while
keeping water content low, superplasticizers (SP) are usually used. The water film thickness …