Amount of water recover from tailing dam. - Thickening, Filtering, CCD & Water Treatment, Tailings Disposal - Metallurgist & Mineral Processing Engineer

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Amount of water recover from tailing dam. (1 reply)

2 years ago

What is the percent of water we can recover from iron ore tailing dam. What are the losses we need to consider from tailing dam.

Mike

2 years ago

Mike 2 years ago

Water recover from a tailings system is dependent on the characteristics of the material. If the tails are low in clay and fines perhaps 50%, if the tails have a high amount of fines and clay 10% recover might be good. Then you need to consider the environmental conditions and soilconditions under the pond. High evaporation rates and highly porus soils (without a liner) can reduce these amounts significantly.

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