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June 2016
An INTERNATIONAL MINING Supplement
PASTE
TAILINGS MANAGEMENT
An INTERNATIONAL MINING supplement
PASTE
TAILINGS MANAGEMENT
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Looking across one of three 60 m
diameter FLSmidth tailings thickeners at
a copper processing plant in northern
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IM looks at news from around the world relevant to paste, backfill and
conventional tailings
An exclusive interview with Paste 2016 Chair Huberto
Gonzalez, who is Tailings and Water Management Manager at SCM Minera
Lumina Copper, Chile
Barry Perlmutter, President & Managing Director of BHS-Sonthofen Inc, looks
at twin-shaft mixing technology for paste backfill
Tim Fitton, Principal Engineer, Fitton Tailings Consultants, discusses a truncated
variation of Central Thickened Discharge which can allow mines to
accommodate more tailings with less thickening
Thomas Skocir and Isaac Ahmed of Golder Associates in Mississauga,
Ontario, Canada; and Glenn Barr of Twin Metals Minnesota, outline how
continued binder testing led to process optimisation and potential savings
in backfill costs for the TMM project
FLSmidth looks at innovations for better tailings management solutions
Frank Palkovits, President of Kovit Engineering, now part of Outotec, asks
whether modular backfill plants are better and the considerations before
stepping into the box
Miguel Jahncke, Director Global Mining and Director Latin America at Schwing Bioset
outlines two case studies from Mexico and Peru where the company’s pump solutions
met backfill and thickened tailings challenges
Robert Cook and Jerold Johnson of WesTech Engineering describe a novel
method to locate and profile the bed in a thickener
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