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Amira Collaboration on Tailings

It is well recognised that tailings management is a challenge beyond any single company to solve, and not limited to a region or commodity. It is truly global.

Amira has developed a holistic and interconnected program of work to address this industry mega challenge. The Amira Collaboration on Tailings (ACT) will deliver a step change in tailings volume and risk mitigation of tailings storage facilities.

Amira is responding to industry mega challenges

Amira provides a platform for industry to build global collaborations to deliver breakthrough research, development, innovation, and implementation (R&D+I2) at scale to address mega challenges.

Within this mandate, and in response to the release of the International Council on Mining and Metals Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management, a collaboration of Amira Global Members was formed.

The consortium of Members identified key priority areas that are too large to solve alone and that require concerted collaborative efforts to reach a goal of zero harm tailings targets.

These are:

1. Avoidance of catastrophic failure of legacy and current tailings storage facilities

2. Reduction in tailings volume creation by re-thinking all steps along the tailings value chain

3. Repurposing legacy tailings, current tailings, and tailings volumes ahead of disposal in tailing storage facilities, both reducing volume and increasing value.

ACT – our approach

Amira Members represent around 60 percent of the reported planned tailings volume for 2025. This represents a significant force for change in our industry.

ACT will develop pathways for R&D+I2 to ensure our industry can deliver on the GISTM target of zero harm to people and the environment with zero tolerance for human fatality. Essential to achieving these targets is our alignment with the ICMM.

Members have identified more than 30 projects that span the key themes.

These projects demonstrate linkages across the tailings value chain and span all technology readiness levels. Each of these submissions contributes to the challenge. Individually, these contributions generate incremental progression. Implemented collectively, a multiplier effect is experienced.

Every project will assist in building knowledge and developing transdisciplinary expertise across the globe, with particular emphasis on regional knowledge and capability development.

Demonstrating impact

The image below shows the impact of projects in the current portfolio through a pre-and-post trajectory of technology readiness levels (TRL).

The shift in the curve is the collective result of each research project advancing through the R&D+I2 phases.

Join us

Amira will be releasing a full prospectus containing details about ACT in 2022. Preliminary projects are starting now.

For more information about ACT, please Bev Kubat at labol1652147973g.ari1652147973ma@ta1652147973buk.v1652147973eb1652147973.


Find out a little more about each of the projects.

Turning tailings into homes Theme: Repurposing Read More
Automated real time monitoring and assurance Themes: Reducing volume and avoiding catastrophic failure Read More
Innovative neutralising and repurposing of tailings Theme: Repurposing Read More
Low-cost solution to avoiding AMD and rehabilitating mined sites Themes: Repurposing & reducing volume Read More
Rapid dewatering, water management Theme: Avoiding catastrophic failure Read More
Improved predictive tools for dam break and runout Theme: Avoiding catastrophic failure Read More
Natural hydrogen to power mine sites Theme: Repurposing Read More
Software for TSF pre-assessment Theme: Avoiding catastrophic failure Read More
Step closer to waterless mining Theme: Reducing volume, repurposing & avoiding catastrophic failure Read More
Geometallurgical Tailing Modelling and a new AI sorting technique Theme: Repurposing Read More
Wireless IoT risk management system Theme: Avoiding catastrophic failure Read More
Alternative tailings management approaches Themes: Reducing volume & avoiding catastrophic failure Read More
Turning waste to wealth and health Themes: Reducing volume, and repurposing Read More
The recycling and repurposing of tailings for process applications Themes: Repurposing & reducing volume Read More
Better prediction of tailings dewatering from small-scale testing Theme: Reducing volume Read More
Geopolymer concrete from tailings and other mine wastes Theme: Repurposing Read More
New standards for TSF design and management Theme: Avoiding catastrophic failure Read More
Standardised approach to safe use of tailings Theme: Repurposing Read More
Making zero mine waste a reality Theme: Theme: Reducing volume, repurposing & avoiding catastrophic failure Read More
Seismic monitoring of tailings dams Theme: Avoiding catastrophic failure Read More
Discovering new resources Theme: Reducing volume Read More
Filling mine voids Themes: Repurposing, avoiding catastrophic failure Read More
Selective removal of acid-forming sulphides and passive treatment of AMD Themes: Repurposing and reducing tailings volume Read More

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