Innovative Solutions for Mining Waste Management

BASF Mining Solutions

BASF Mining Solutions provides a broad range of mineral processing chemicals and technologies designed to increase process efficiency and support the economical extraction of scarce resources. We deliver consulting and technical expertise to the mineral processing industry worldwide. Our global team works toward a common objective to provide the best solution meeting our customers' processing needs. Represented technically in more than 100 countries, BASF also provides local expertise. Our product portfolio includes separators, equipment, process technologies and expertise focused on applications such as solids and liquids separation, solvent extraction, mine waste management, flotation, iron and coal pelletizing and dust suppression. BASF's Mine Waste Management Team delivers a complete package comprising innovative technology combined with on-site technical and commercial support, the comprehensive Rheomax®ETD application, expert consulting, pilot and full-scale engineering equipment, and commissioning and operation services. Our objective is to provide innovative and sustainable solutions that enable our customers' operations to run more efficiently while delivering operational, economic and environmental benefits.

Rheomax® ETD Enhanced Waste Control

Rheomax® ETD is a waste management method using new technologies to alter and control the structural and drainage properties of mineral processing residues.   Waste thickeners with high yield stress typically produce high-density underflow that is pumped long distances, often to the final storage area. The waste is then deposited, dried and finally rehabilitated. Rheomax® ETD has the ability to consolidate waste at the treatment point by influencing rapid water discharge from treated slurry. This accelerates the drying time of these wastes, resulting in smaller waste storage area and allowing released water to return to processing more quickly.  

Benefits Achieved with Waste Section Consolidation;

• Economic Extending the life of disposal areas, reducing insurance costs. • Operational Slurry settlement control, eliminates the need for reprocessing waste accumulation. • Environmental Simultaneous disposal of coarse and fine materials, faster trafficable surface. Benefits Achieved with Enhanced Water Discharge; • Economic Reduced evaporation losses. • Operational Greater volume for recycling, rapid recovery of recycled water needed by the process. • Environmental Reduced fresh water requirements, reduced storage area need. Benefits Provided by Reduced Storage Area; • Economic Lower land management costs, less mobile equipment, lower rehabilitation costs. • Environmental Faster rehabilitation timeframe, lower energy consumption.

Customer Engineering Solutions Polymer Preparation Equipment

• High-quality, industry-standard engineering equipment. • Durability proven in high and low temperature environments and also in high-humidity tropical locations. • Proven low maintenance record – important for remote locations. Complies with mining industry electrical safety standards.

Engineering Expert Services

• Determines and scales engineering requirements. • Provides custom design modifications for individual applications as needed. • Installs and commissions equipment. • Provides routine service inspections and maintenance. • Available in various package sizes including tanker distribution.

Polymer Preparation Equipment Includes:

• Powder storage unit. • Solution preparation systems that dissolve powder in low-concentration solution ready for direct slurry application. • Control systems, providing fully integrated automatic control for solution preparation systems with manual override capability. • Dosing pumps, which introduce product into processing with or without dilution. • Automatic dosing control, fully integrated to minimize and optimize dosing requirements at the point of application.

Research and Development Partnerships

Our partnerships, based on collaboration with leading mining sector researchers such as AMIRA International and CSIRO, keep us at the forefront of industry innovation and enable us to develop sustainable solutions to industry challenges. Our collaboration with leading industry consulting, engineering and mining companies ensures our programs focus on specific solutions and generate value throughout mining operations. Innovation lies at the center of BASF Mining Solutions business, as our objective through technical service, research and development, sustainability and responsible care is to develop new and innovative chemical products, product applications and processes that will effectively address the continuously changing challenges the mining industry continues to face. BASF is committed to working in close collaboration with its customers, academia and global industry organizations. BASF's comprehensive backward integration into the building blocks of mineral processing product chemicals enables us to effectively apply our knowledge and chemical experience to develop both conventional and innovative chemicals to address the technical and commercial challenges the industry faces today and will face in the future. Our product development and technical support staff are located around the world and are supported by three BASF Global Competence Centers located in Tucson (North America), Ludwigshafen (Germany) and Perth (Australia). With our chemistry, equipment, process and application technologies, industry experience and customer commitment, BASF offers a unique competence and expertise package to effectively support diverse mineral processing technology developments and process challenges. Ersin Özarslan - Mining Chemicals Technical - Sales Manager - BASF Turkey & Azerbaijan