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Author: Angus Paterson
Thickened tailings – a water and energy consumption perspective
The purpose of this study was to determine the optimum thickened target density for the slimes generated by the pilot plant by considering both water and energy consumption.
The pipeline transport of high density slurries — a historical review of past mistakes, lessons learned and current technologies
The objective of this paper is to address these issues by tracing the historical development of high density pumping and why the problems of the past are not necessarily the same problems of today.
Determining the Optimum Location of a High Rate Thickener for a Thickened Tailings System
This paper presents a cost comparison between pumping large volumes of dilute thickener feed to a remote thickener located at the tailings storage facility (TSF), and using high pressure positive displacement pumps pumping thickened tailings from a thickener located at the process plant to the tailings residue facility.