Objective
Large quantities of tailings remain in the manganese mining industry, after mining and ore dressing. They still contain substantial amounts of manganese (12 to 15%), which could not be exploited economically until now. A novel innovative and low cost method has been proposed by Prof. dr R.D. Schuiling to recover manganese by utilizing (waste) acids and sewage sludge. The innovative step in the proposed research is the mobilization by reduction that creates a method that utilizes wastes, sewage sludge (or other organic sludges) and (industrial waste) acids, in order to recover manganese from its tailings, which is not profitably possible with the present techniques. This method can be applied in situ as well as ex situ (i.e. in a reactor). After extracting the manganese from the tailings, the treated tailings can be utilized as a subsoil, and vast stretches of land (former tailings disposal area) will become available again for other uses. The process enables mining companies to consider their tailings as a secondary ore reserve instead of a waste problem. This could revive a lot of idle small scale European manganese mining companies and provides a marketable method for low cost tailings treatment.
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3583 GN Utrecht
Netherlands
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