Toronto-based Krystal Bond’s technology to stabilize acid-generating mine tailings will be tested this spring at a site in Montana. The field trial will be monitored by the U.S. Mine Waste Technology program and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The company’s “Krystal Cure” technology will be used to encapsulate the mine’s tailings impoundment and thereby eliminate percolation of water through the tailings pile and erosion of the tailings material. The binder material forms a cap with the mine tailings, thus reducing avenues of surface water pollution. The project will be monitored by the EPA for one year.
Krystal Bond specializes in economic solutions for environmental concerns in the mining, coal, steel and manufacturing industries.
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