How to Remediate Mine Tailings Ponds Without the Use of Chemicals or Filtration:
Removing metals from mining wastewater is typically done using large amounts of chemicals or complex, costly filtration systems. However, high levels of removal can also be achieved simply by enriching oxygen levels in tailings ponds to enable oxidation of free metals to bind with cations in the bottom sediment.
The Pure Water Restoration Revitalization System is a compact system that creates an oxidizing environment in tailings ponds by increasing the oxidation reduction potential (ORP) and promotes chelating of free metals such as aluminum, copper, iron, cobalt, gold, zinc, and arsenic; and chemical oxidation of other reduced species such as cyanide’s, sulfides, and organic acids. Once metals are locked up in the bottom sediment, water quality in the tailings pond is dramatically improved and can often be released to receiving bodies. The Pure Water Restoration Revitalization System achieves this by generating resonant energy waves at prescribed frequencies that increase oxygen throughout the water column and the bottom sediment. A single P.W.R. Revitalization System can impact a large water body hundreds of hectares or larger in size.
The Pure Water Restoration Revitalization System has received Certificates of Approval from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment (MOE) specifically for “increasing oxygen” in sewage lagoons and has been proven successful in remediation of various polluted water bodies including: • Wastewater lagoons • Recreational lakes and ponds • Storm water ponds • Water reservoirs
