Placing environmental responsibility at the heart of mining operations
Declining ore quality, resource-intensive processes, and stricter environmental regulations all contribute to increasingly complex mining operations. As your trusted partner, Veolia provides comprehensive solutions for each stage of your mine lifecycle: from greenfield mining infrastructure to post-operational and rehabilitations services, our service offering covers water management, hazardous waste treatment, resource recovery, and industrial cleaning services. Our expertise allows you to balance productivity with sustainability while managing costs effectively, particularly in remote and arid locations.
With our proven track record serving over 100 mining sites worldwide, we are the leading supplier of environmental services to the mining industry.
Hightlights
Recovering metals and by-products from water discharges
Managing wastewater and tailings from the mining industry, particularly during extraction operations and after the closure of a mining site, is one of the major environmental challenges of this sector.
Veolia ensures all discharges comply with regulations, a vital condition for obtaining or retaining your operating license.
Our comprehensive wastewater treatment strategies and proprietary technologies allow us to optimize your yields through the recovery of minerals present in tailings, reuse and recycle water resources, and reduce your overall effluent volume.
Maximizing operations efficiency with comprehensive industrial cleaning solutions
Equipment reliability and minimal downtime are crucial to your productivity.
We understand these challenges and deliver comprehensive industrial cleaning solutions to keep your operations running smoothly. Our expert teams deploy advanced technologies including high and ultra-high pressure water jetting, vacuum loading, scaffolding, and robotic cleaning systems.
We offer specialized chemical and abrasive cleaning services, supported by our materials handling capabilities. During planned shutdowns, our integrated service approach ensures a swift execution, while meeting the highest safety and environmental standards.
Giving mines a second life
Operators in the mining industry have a long-term responsibility for mine sites even after extraction stops.
From dismantling the installations to deploying soil and water remediation techniques and long-term environmental monitoring, Veolia has all the required know-how and experience to give mines the opportunity for a second life. Transforming abandoned mines into waste treatment and recovery sites is part of our core activities.
We also provide acid mine drainage and treatment services to prevent adverse impacts on neighboring water sources.
Our tailored solutions
Water solutions for the Mining industry
Planning, design and construction phase
- Water and wastewater treatment plants
- Potable water systems
- Containerised mobile units
- Pilot plants
- Guaranteed operations and maintenance
Operational phase
- Water and wastewater treatment plants
- Potable water systems - ZLD
- Acid mine drainage treatment
- Refurbishments, upgrades and modifications of existing water treatment plants
- Containerised mobile units
Mine closure
- Water management beyond closure
- Water and wastewater treatment plants
- Containerised mobile units
Waste solutions for the Mining industry
Planning, design and construction phase
- Design and construction of on-site waste treatment and facilities including landfills and sorting facilities
- Collection and recovery / recycling of construction waste
- Comprehensive waste management plants
- Dust suppression, chemicals and logistics
Operational phase
- Industrial cleaning services
- Industrial waste management and resource recovery
- Facilities maintenance services
- Refractory management
Mine closure
- Remediation services
- Hazardous waste management treatment and recovery
🇦🇺 Australia | Protecting the ecosystem
In 2013, Energy Resources of Australia Ltd (ERA), a subsidiary of the Rio Tinto Group, chose our seawater concentrator technology to treat and reduce stocks of process water stored at its Ranger uranium mine in Kakadu National Park, a UNESCO world heritage site. The solution now forms a critical part of ERA’s overall strategy for water management and environmental protection.
🇦🇺 Australia | Transforming an abandoned mine into a waste recovery site
At Woodlawn in Australia, we transformed a former copper, lead and zinc open-cast mine into a showcase waste recovery site. The former mine now houses a municipal landfill for solid waste, installations for composting, and a green energy production plant that provides power to over 2,500 nearby homes.
🇨🇱 Chile | Recovering copper from tailing ponds
Working with a local partner, we designed, built and now operate a treatment plant that processes over 3 million m3 of wastewater every year. And we help our customer, a mining company, to recover copper from its discharges to be returned to the mine for inclusion in its output.
🇬🇧 UK | Controlling acid mine drainage
At Wheal Jane, a tin mine that ceased operating in 1992, a large volume of polluted water was discharged into the environment. We took over and optimized the on-site installations to improve control of acid mine drainage. The wastewater treatment plant currently handles over 6,000 m3 every day, with lower costs and energy use.
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