Reducing mine water network energy requirements

Gunson, Aaron James; Klein, Bern; Veiga, Marcello M.; Dunbar, Scott

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.04.002

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“…Energy reductions associated with water use can also arise from improvement of the systems that handle water on-site. Changes in control strategies and equipment layout for mine-mill reticulation systems provide opportunities for significant energy reductions (Vosloo et al, 2012;Gunson et al, 2010).…”

Section: Water Energy and Ghg Relationshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using sustainability reporting to assess the environmental footprint of copper mining

Northey

Haque

Mudd

2013

Journal of Cleaner Production

208

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Section: Water Energy and Ghg Relationshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using sustainability reporting to assess the environmental footprint of copper mining

Northey

Haque

Mudd

2013

Journal of Cleaner Production

208

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“…This has focussed on social and mine legacy impacts (Worrall et al, 2009) and energy (Norgate and Haque, 2010), water (Gunson et al, 2010) and environmental impacts on site (Hilson, 2000;Hilson and Monhemius, 2006) and along the production-consumption chain (Giurco and Petrie, 2007). However, less attention has been directed to analysing how impacts and benefits from mining change over time and what this means at a national scale for addressing the long-term future of resource rich countries like Australia (Willett, 2002).…”

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confidence: 99%

Availability, addiction and alternatives: three criteria for assessing the impact of peak minerals on society

Mason

Prior

Mudd

et al. 2011

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Some studies have examined the correlation between these two components (Nguyen et al, 2014, Gunson et al, 2010, Norgate and Haque, 2012. Other studies have focused on modelling mine water management without considering energy consumed (Cote et al, 2010, Gunson et al, 2012.…”

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A framework for a sustainable approach to mine tailings management: disposal strategies

Adiansyah

John

Vink

et al. 2015

Journal of Cleaner Production

284

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The aim of mine tailings management strategy is to protect the environment and humans from risks associated with mine tailings. It seems inevitable that future production from lower grade ores in mines will increase, generating a higher tonnage of tailings. Approximately 14 billion tonnes of tailings were produced globally by the mining industry in 2010. The need for a comprehensive framework for mine tailings management (including dewatering) that promotes sustainable development is therefore becoming increasingly recognised by the mining industry. In this paper, we review existing frameworks for tailings management and propose an improved framework that considers key sustainable development pillars: technological, economic, environmental, policy, and social aspects. This framework will be able to guide the mining sector to choose its mine tailings management strategy based on sustainable development concepts. It incorporates a range of tools for determining trade-offs inherent in different tailings management methods during operation and throughout the Life of Mine (LOM); these include Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Net Present Value (NPV), Hierarchy System Model (HSM), and Decision Analysis. In particular, this proposed recognises the highly casespecific of tailings management by explicitly integrating physicochemical characterisation of tailings properties as a first step. In future, the framework could be expanded through integration of reuse/recycle principles of industrial symbiosis.

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Reducing mine water network energy requirements

Cited by 45 publications

References 28 publications

Using sustainability reporting to assess the environmental footprint of copper mining

Using sustainability reporting to assess the environmental footprint of copper mining

Availability, addiction and alternatives: three criteria for assessing the impact of peak minerals on society

A framework for a sustainable approach to mine tailings management: disposal strategies

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