2025 Mining Innovation & Research Battlefield

Pitch 1 - Transforming Tailings with Innovative Water Solutions

• Tailings & water are tightly related. A full recycle of water is a prerequisite for future tailing utilization. Water should be thought as an enabler to give the highest recoveries

Lisa October, Resoketswe Manenzhe and Diana Kasymova
Pitch 2 -  Waste-to-Wealth Tailings Processing

• Co-processing uranium and copper tailings for REE and cobalt extraction using waste-generated acid, eliminating acid costs and reducing reagent consumption for neutralizati    

Vitor Loureiro Gontijo & James Vaughan
Pitch 3 - BioCarbonX: Reclaiming brownfields and rehabilitating mine sites

• Our engineered biochar combined with tailings has the capacity to reclaim brownfields and rehabilitate mine sites by adsorbing heavy metals and enriching the soil.

Mwiza Muwowo, Johra Said Ali and Norris Mukembe
 

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