ViroMine™ Technology - a world first in the
treatment of acid and heavy metals
in water and soils.
With
ViroMine™ Technology toxic dams
can become
reservoirs of clean water before tragedies
occur
This remarkable technology can be applied to economically treat acid mine drainage, tailings dam water, sulphidic mine tailings, acid sulphate soils, and waste rock to:
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Permanently neutralise acid.
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Trap trace metals and prevents leaching.
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Enhance nutrient retention capacity and promote vigorous plant growth.
Trials by the US EPA have proven just how effective this new technology is... and their findings can be found along with other case studies below. You will find these under two categories:
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Treatment of contaminated water.
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Treatment of waste rock, leachate and soil.
ViroMine™ Technology
Mining Waste Treatment and site Remediation
> ViroMine™
Technology is a world first technology, with a proven record to economically treat all forms of mining waste, including Acid Rock Drainage, tailings dam water, sulphidic mine tailings, acid sulphate soils and waste rock dumps.
> A TECHNICAL
DATA SHEET that explains how
ViroMine™ Technology can be used effectively
in the treatment of ACID
ROCK DRAINAGE and TAILINGS
DAMS.
> Fox Resource CASE STUDY shows how ViroMine™ Technology provided a cost-effective way to lower the concentrations of all HEAVY METALS in the TAILINGS DAM to well below target concentrations.
> ViroMine™ Technology was effective in treating both
the acidity and the metal contamination in the leachate
emanating from the HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION WASTEWATER TREATMENT project at
Cheongju City, in South Korea. CASE STUDY
> This TAILINGS
DAM IN PORTUGAL had a dissolved metal
load in excess of 6,800 mg/L. Read this CASE
STUDY to see how ViroMine™
Technology successfully treated this highly
contaminated water.
> AMD treated with ViroMine™ Technology
in the Baia Mare region of ROMANIA met Romanian Ecosystem requirements and
was safely discharged into the environment.
View the CASE
STUDY.
> A CASE
STUDY of how ViroMine™
Technology was used to cleanse and purify
the MT CARRINGTON
TAILINGS DAM containing 1.6 billion
litres of highly contaminated water.
> A CASE
STUDY showing how ViroMine™
Technology was effective in removing metals
and neutralising acid in AMD water flowing
from a QUARRY'S
HOLDING DAM into wetland ecosystems
in Queensland.
> Within 24 hours of treatment using ViroMine™
Technology the water in contaminated settling
ponds at THALANGA
COPPER MINES was improved to stock
water quality. View the full CASE
STUDY.
> The SEPON GOLD MINE, operated by Oxiana Resources in Laos, had problems with acid mine drainage management. ViroMine™ Technology treated the pond and a permeable reactive barrier was installed inside a drainage gallery. View the full CASE STUDY.
> KING RIVERCASE STUDY shows how ViroMine™ Technology was extremely successful in treating the high levels of acidity, the large amounts of leachable and airborne heavy metals in the tailings, and was the only solution that allowed for successful revegetation of thetailings beach.
> This TECHNICAL
DATA SHEET details how ViroMine™
Technology can be used to remediate SULPHIDIC
WASTE ROCK AND SOIL, prevent the
formation of acidic leachate, and promote
healthy plant growth.
> A CASE
STUDY showing how the US
EPA recently tested ViroMine™
Technology at a severely contaminated mine
site in South Dakota - and the highly positive
results achieved to date.
> Read this CASE STUDY from NSW, Australia, to see how remarkable
growth was achieved on ACID
ROCK WASTE using Virotec's Terra
B™ reagent - and where previous liming
treatment had failed.
> A CASE
STUDY showing the long-term and
economic effectiveness of ViroBind™,
Terra B™ and ViroGrow™ reagents
over lime, and the healthy revegetation
achieved in CONTAMINATED SOILS.
> The successful remediation of CONTAMINATED
TAILINGS using ViroMine™ Technology
at a mine site is documented in this CASE
STUDY. Amazing plant growth was achieved in formerly
barren soil.
> In 2004 MINERAL
RESOURCES TASMANIA, a Government
Department, undertook trials at Rossarden
mine site to remediate the tailings using
ViroMine™ Technology. Read the complete CASE
STUDY.
> In this CASE STUDY CSA COPPER MINE compared the ability of lime and Virotec's Terra B™ reagent to increase soil reaction pH and bind metals, thereby allowing successful revegetation of metal contaminated soils at the site.
> An old iron ore mine in ULSAN, KOREA contributed to heavy metal and metalloid contamination of soil and groundwater for a potential property development site. In this CASE STUDY Virotec's Neutra B™ reagent successfully removed these contaminants.
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ViroMine™ Technology
"may be the only acceptable and sustainable solution
from an economic point of view to solve acid rock drainage
and acid sulphate soils."
Professor
Olaf Schuiling, International Institute of Environmental
Engineering, Delft,
The Netherlands.
DID YOU KNOW?
The US EPA estimates that, in the USA, Acid Mine Drainage affects over 500,000 sites with a remediation liability ranging from US$33 to US$72 billion.
READ
WHAT
THE US EPA
REPORTED
Read the Complete
Letter received
from the US EPA and impressive results from a trial
conducted at the Gilt Edge mine site in North Dakota.
The
Case
Study shows the results get even better as time progresses.
June 2007 - US EPA takes major step forward on cleaning up abandoned mines - see the press release.
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