MINE TAILING MANAGEMENT IS CHALLENGING
Midwest mitigates and prevents up to 99% of potential dust emissions from your mine tailings.

As a responsible member of the community, you strive to preserve and protect your Social License to operate. Midwest understands this and will partner with you, providing dust control products and application expertise for your mine tailing impoundments.

Overview

Haul Roads

Access Roads

Underground Roads And Ribs

Tailings

Material Handling

TAILINGS ARE A SIMPLE FACT OF THE MINING PROCESS

Tailings are being constantly generated which means that tailing facilities are continuously rising. Fugitive dust emissions from mine tailings are predominately in the PM10-PM2.5 fraction.

Of particular concern is that this build-up is more susceptible to high winds. This has resulted in a worldwide storage and handling environmental problem for which a long-term surface management strategy that utilizes current best technologies serves as a viable answer.

Midwest will help provide a solution, helping you develop and maintain a proactive plan for mine tailing management.

MINE TAILING MANAGEMENT IS A HUGE UNDERTAKING

Midwest has the expertise and the leading technologies to help you reduce the risk, managing financial, environmental and social liabilities. We understand that management of mine tailings is extremely complex and challenging. Each site presents unique issues and we want to be part of your daily operating plan.

Can be a year-around issue

In any weather condition.

Handle temporarily inactive areas.

Transitional periods, such as freeze/dry conditions.

Midwest has your one-source solution that covers the scale of your operations and the complexity of the challenge.

Midwest has the knowledge, skill and aptitude in mine tailings dust control, solving problems others cannot without EVER giving up before solving the mine’s problems. We’re also different because we work with you to co-develop a program and participate to the degree you choose. We stand alone as the only manufacturer that can supply 100% of your product and servicing needs.

With you, we create a program before the need arises, preparing rather than reacting, and anticipating remedies to always stay ahead of the “what’s next” curve.

Midwest’s system of best technology products and services performs consistently — month after month, season to season and year after year — based on our long-term commitment to our relationship and to project/product safety.

DOCUMENTED RESULTS PROVE PERFORMANCE

45 years ago, Midwest’s first customers were mines. With all that experience, Midwest excels at remedying problems rather than merely providing ordinary, temporary results. Typical outcomes include:

UP TO 99%

dust elimination design

STRONGEST BOUND MATRIX

of tailing material

HIGHEST DUCTILE STRENGTH

and elastic resistance

EXCEPTIONAL RESISTANCE

to wind erosion, abrasion, rain erosion

SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENT

in consistency and uniformity

PERSEVERANCE/ENDURANCE

through variety of conditions over time

THE MIDWEST PROCESS GETS EXTREME IMPROVEMENTS

You need to achieve cost-effective continuous dust control that’s integrated into the mine’s tailings operational process, and that meets compliance requirements. Your issues include the potential for a high wind catastrophic dusting event that puts compliance at risk and reaches the public as news. Midwest best meets your needs, with the optimum combination of products, people, application and equipment to address your critical issues — using our collaborative 4 step process:

1. DISCOVER

This phase helps us understand the problem and your goals/objectives by custom-designing our hypothesis with you, based on broad value propositions, site surveys and interviews with mining management. This accumulates critical knowledge, creates objectives and identifies measurement criteria.

> you decide whether to investigate further

> you decide if the potential improvements work for you

> this begins the mutual respect and trust that governs our relationship

2. DIAGNOSIS

The second phase analyzes tailings issues that define the potential causes of dusting events and the areas that are sensitive to dusting. Midwest performs laboratory testing to confirm the correct design of our solution, with common tests including Atterberg Limits (Liquid, Plastic and Shrinkage Limits), Particle Specific Gravity, Gradation, Permeability, Density, Strength, Compaction, Consolidation and Rheology.

3. DESIGN

Solution and design options are examined in this phase, with Midwest’s formulation and application process selected to create the bound matrix design for optimum performance. To achieve desired performance properties and longevity, we develop a dust control plan well in advance of predicted need and work with you to create a sufficient budget for funds and manpower to implement the program.

> establish level of acceptable dust reduction

> determine economic and performance measures

> customer and Midwest jointly evaluate how to maximize program

> develop business case of implementation, whether a managed service program or assisted customer applied program

4. DELIVER

This is the dust control plan and implementation process, coordinated with mine management and personnel. Given that the plan is co-developed with you, we agree upon and document goals and objectives. Midwest can support you by being on-site during plan implementation.

MINE TAILING MANAGEMENT IS CHALLENGING ENOUGH, SO WE LET YOU EXPERIENCE THE MIDWEST DIFFERENCE

Customized for your site and tested on the job, the Midwest program seamlessly integrates into your mine plan for documented performance results.

Midwest’s comprehensive 30-day trial helps you see actual improvements on your site. The trial, co-developed with you to determine your best solution, provides accurate data for predictable performance assurance to achieve proper scale-up and overcome obstacles to success.

The Midwest trial process helps determine the goals, needs and competing interests to design and implement your tailings dust and hazardous waste control solution. We do this in a controlled way to ensure its effectiveness and scalability within the challenge area.

PERFORMANCE IMPACT

FILL OUT THE FORM TO START YOUR DISCOVERY PROCESS