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Doñana disaster - Wikipedia

The Doñana Disaster, also known as the Aznalcollar Disaster or Guadiamar Disaster (Sp: Desastre de Aznalcóllar, Desastre del Guadiamar), was an industrial accident in Andalusia, southern Spain.On 25 April 1998, a holding dam burst at the Los Frailes mine, near Aznalcóllar, Seville Province, releasing 4–5 million cubic metres of mine tailings. ...

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Tailings solutions: How to filter down the options

Potential water recovery potentials for copper flotation tailings are shown in the below table. In Chile, current estimates for the cost of desalinated water pumped to the mine are as high as $5 per cubic meter or higher. Table 2: Potential Water Recovery for Dewatering Copper Flotation Tailings [1]

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Shifting the Mind Set: Tailings Management at the Las ...

12%Located within the prolific Iberian pyrite belt (IPB) in the province of Seville, southwest Spain, the high-grade secondary copper ore is mined via a 200 m deep open pit. The ore is subsequently processed in a hydrometallurgical plant with atmospheric ferric dynamic leaching and SX/EW recovery, to produce LME grade copper cathodes.

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From Tailings to Treasure? Miners Make ... - Advancing Mining

Mintails, a mine tailings processor, has developed new technology to process 350,000 tons of slimes from its extensive tailings resources. It expects to recover 58 kg of gold per month, and has enough slimes to last until 2025. Goldfields has also developed new technology for a tailings retreatment plant, and processes 12,000 tons of current ...

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Mining | Mining in Andalucia | Andalucia

It was controversial at the time and it did spark foreign interest in mining in Spain. This led to the Taylors and others investing successfully in lead mines in Linares and Matheson in the Río Tinto copper mines. Gold Fever in Rodalquilar. Mining was restarted in 1864 and gold fever struck in 1880.

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Projects – Ecotech Mining

Commonwealth lead/zinc/silver slag, NSW. Copper Hill copper deposit, NSW. Perilya Flinders zinc ore, SA. Texas Silver Mines silver/zinc slag, QLD. Penarroya lead/zinc/silver slag, Spain. Mt Morgan gold/copper Tailings Re-treatment Demonstration Plant, Qld.1. Pegmont Mines Pegmont lead/zinc Resource, Qld.1. New Hope gold/cobalt resource, NSW.1.

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Waste Mine Tailings Characterisation

This is especially true of the copper, iron, and uranium industries. A total of 31,191 million tons of overburden, waste rock, and tailings was generated by the metal-ore and non-metal mineral mining industries during the period 1960-1977. Of this total, approximately 40 percent was generated by the copper mining industry alone.

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Mine tailings: reprocess, recover & recycle – The ...

Say a copper mine produced 1Mt of metal in 1999 at 90% recovery. 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. Fast forward 20 years and at today's price, US$5,842/tonne, if that material could be reprocessed and an extra ...

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Evaluation of metal mobility from copper mine tailings in ...

(4)Agrarian Science and Technology Department, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Paseo Alfonso XIII 48, 30203, Cartagena, Spain. This work shows the results obtained on a copper mine tailing in the Antofagasta Region, Chile. The tailing was classified as saline-sodic with high concentrations of metals, especially Cu and Fe, with pH 8.4.

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Heavy metal distribution and chemical speciation in ...

Soil samples were taken in the surroundings of the "San Quintín" Pb–Zn mine, located in the Alcudia Valley, Ciudad Real, Spain ().The mine was an important Pb–Zn producer during the late 19th and early 20th centuries within a broad metallogenic province known as Sierra Morena, located approximately 250 km south of Madrid.This mining area was the major lead producer in Spain during …

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The Los Frailes tailings dam failure (Aznalcóllar, Spain)

On April 25, 1998, a tailings dam failure of the Los Frailes lead-zinc mine at Aznalcóllar near Seville, Spain, released 4-5 million cubic meters of toxic tailings slurries and liquid into nearby Río Agrio, a tributary to Río Guadiamar.

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Major El Teniente tailings project for Spain's OHL ...

Major El Teniente tailings project for Spain's OHL. Spain's OHL has been awarded a contract at the largest underground copper mine, El Teniente, located 120 km from Santiago de Chile. The project has been awarded by Codelco, with a budget of approximately $20 million. The contract includes the support service to be given to the operation ...

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FQM's Cobre Las Cruces to fill ... - International Mining

"Following the completion of open-pit mining, copper production will continue until early 2021 with the processing of stockpiled ore," it said in the report, noting copper production guidance for 2020 of 55,000 t. It added that extension of the current mine life through the re-processing of high-grade tailings …

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Reinforced Mine Tailings Pond Closure in Huelva, …

The Sotiel Coronda mining complex is located at Calanas in the province of Huelva (Andalucia), Southwest Spain. This was a huge deposit of pyrite mineral that had been extracted over centuries of mining in the area. The main mineral extraction activity was the processing of copper…

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New Century prepares to tackle infamous Tasmanian mine ...

Copper and gold have been mined at Mt Lyell since the 1800s, but poor management of the mine and its waste in the first half of the last century …

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Phytostabilization of Mine Tailings in Arid and Semiarid ...

Mine tailings disposal sites from either inactive or abandoned mine sites are prevalent in arid and semiarid regions throughout the world. Major areas include northern Mexico and the Western United States, the Pacific coast of South America (Chile and Peru), southwestern Spain, western India, South Africa, and Australia (Munshower 1994; Tordoff et al. 2000).

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Neves-Corvo | Lundin Mining Corporation

Neves-Corvo is a mainly copper and zinc mine producing copper, zinc and lead concentrates. The operation is owned and operated by Lundin Mining's Portuguese subsidiary Somincor. Lundin Mining acquired Neves-Corvo as part of the company's 2006 merger with EuroZinc Mining. m 2017 NI 43-101 Technical Report. Mine Copper, Zinc, Lead and Silver.

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Circular Economy in Tailings Management - Mine Water and ...

Full use of such volumes of tailings as raw materials is difficult; a copper mine that processes 20 kT/d of ore with 0.5% Cu discharges 19.6 kT/d of tailings, which occupy a volume of 14.4 km 3 /d on the surface and consumes 10 ha/yr for a 50 m deep dam. The factor that limits tailings storage inside an underground mine is the low permeability ...

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DRC: JV proposed for cobalt-copper tailings » African ...

Paragon has secured the right to mine the Kipushi tailings under an existing agreement with State-owned copper and cobalt mining company, La Générale des Carrières et des Mines(Gecamines). Under this agreement, Paragon holds a 70% interest in Kipushi and will increase this to 80% as a condition precedent to the transaction.

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RIS-CuRE: Zero waste recovery of copper tailings in the ...

Project duration: 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2021 Objective Although mining and processing tailings can present a substantial risk to the environment, on the other hand, they represent valuable sources of secondary and in particular critical raw materials. Serbia and FYR Macedonia have an abundance of Cu mines which have been exploited since ancient times. […]

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Major Mines & Projects | Aguablanca Mine

Mining operations use a conventional drill and blast, and truck and shovel fleet. The pit is mined with 8 m benches and the final slopes are designed with a double bench configuration. Waste rock is stacked to the immediate north of the open pit and the waste dumps form the downstream wall of the tailings …

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Tailings.info Los Frailes tailings dam failure

Los Frailes, Aznalcollar, Spain. Figure A: The almost sealed embankment that failed at Los Frailes. Introduction. Minas de Aznalcóllar is located near the town of Aznalcóllar in southwestern Spain and approximately 40 km west of the large city of Sevilla ().It is within the Iberian Pyrite Belt which has a well known mining district for at least a few millennia.

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Top Mining Companies in Spain | Glassdoor

First Quantum also operates a copper extraction/electrowinning facility that processes mine tailings to produce copper cathode and sulfuric acid. The company produces around 375,000 tons of copper and 195,000 ounces of gold annually. First Quantum also has …

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Atalaya Mining halts tailings facility at Rio Tinto copper ...

Atalaya Mining has temporarily suspended usage of tailings facility at its Rio Tinto copper project in Andalucía, Spain, after receiving an information request from the Junta de Andalucía. The company provided all relevant reports to the Junta and hopes that it will result in the lifting of the provisional suspension soon.

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New Tailings Reprocessing Technology ... - Advancing Mining

Several efforts are underway to extract gold and copper from tailings. Reprocessing mine tailings may also have environmental benefits. A recent project described in Mining is a series of experiments carried out by an international group of scientists to produce approximately 30 years of passive carbonation of mine tailings within four weeks.

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Tailings Retreatment: The Next Revenue Source for the ...

Tailings deposited into dams are in the form of a slurry. In 1998, a tailings dam failed at the Los Frailes zinc mine in Spain, causing more than one billion gallons of acidic, heavy metal-laden sludge to spill into the surrounding area, eventually making its way into the Guadiamar River. The spill decimated the area, resulting in massive ...

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Controversial Los Frailes mine in Aznalcóllar, Spain is to ...

February 26, 2015. in Europe, News. Spain's Andalucían regional government is re-opening the controversial Los Frailes mine in Aznalcóllar, near Seville. In April 1998, a holding dam at the mine burst releasing around five million m³ of acidic mine tailings containing dangerous levels …

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Tailings solutions for all mine conditions

Full range of solutions: Sand dam, thickened, paste backfill, filtered and co-mingled EcoTails®. Every mine site has unique considerations, whether it be high fresh water costs, permitting, stability issues or seismic activity. We work with you to determine the tailings solution that's right for your unique mining conditions and local ...

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Controversial Spanish mine to reopen | Mining | The Guardian

Los Frailes mine in Aznalcóllar, near Seville, will resume operations 17 years after a tailings dam burst, dumping five million cubic metres of toxic sludge into the Guadiamar river.

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New approaches for extracting and recovering metals from ...

A two-stage mineral leaching and metal recovery protocol was developed to extract copper from tailings generated as waste materials in two mines currently operating in Spain …

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