Tailings Paste Disposal – More than Water Recovery
Mar 22, 2016· For example, a tailings stream in an iron ore application could be thickened to 4550% solids in conventional or highrate thickeners. Conversely, the same tailings stream could be thickened to 6570% solids using a paste thickener. This increased water recovery is important to many countries throughout the world due to the scarcity of fresh water.