Can a Sustainable Mining Experiment in New Caledonia …
A view of wet tailings, toxic sludge waste from the mining process, at the nickel mine in Goro. The dirty coal that powers the processing plant will be replaced by a large collection of solar ...
Development of Ceramic Tiles from Philippine Nickel Laterite Mine Waste
Siltation is the biggest environmental challenge associated with nickel laterite mining in the Philippines. The amount of silt generated is huge and one mitigation strategy currently employed by ...
Mining is a polluting business. Can new tech make it cleaner?
These include Nth Cycle, a startup that has developed technology for extracting battery metals like cobalt, nickel, and manganese from mine waste, low-grade ores, and end-of-life technology ...
Dirty Nickel, Clean Power: Making the Ocean Bleed Red
Feature. February 21, 2023. Dirty Nickel, Clean Power: Making the Ocean Bleed Red. How the race for more efficient batteries is poisoning Indonesia's coastal waters. Nicolas Niarchos....
BHP explores carbon capture with nickel mine waste
October 22, 2021. Share this article. BHP's Nickel West operations in Western Australia. Credit: BHP. BHP Group is reportedly weighing the potential of capturing and storing …
How do miners dispose of their waste in the sea?
The management of mining waste has drawn attention since two dam disasters in Brazil, and after red mud spilled into Papua New Guinea's Basamuk Bay from Ramu Nickel's operations in August.
This town's mining battle reveals the contentious …
A map displays Talon's proposed nickel-mining site near Tamarack, Minnesota. ACKERMAN + GRUBER. But Talon is striving to distance itself from the …
Vale taps BluestOne to repurpose nickel waste in Brazil
The Rio de Janeiro-based mining giant said the agreement could potentially boost BluestOne's production of recycled nickel recovered from waste products around the world.
Indonesia has a long way to go to produce nickel sustainably
According to the IEA, in a scenario consistent with the climate goals of the Paris Agreement, battery nickel supply would need to balloon to 19 times its size by 2040. Battery cobalt, which can be produced in Indonesia as a by-product, would have to increase 21 times. Both metals boost energy density in current electric vehicle and grid-level ...
Timmins nickel project could be one huge carbon sink
The proponents of a Timmins-area nickel mine are promoting the open-pit project as one of the largest carbon capture storage facilities in Canada. ... Because Crawford is an ultramatic deposit, the tailings and other mine waste rock generated after milling naturally and spontaneously absorbs and sequesters CO2 (carbon dioxide) when …
How clean can the nickel industry become? | McKinsey
Leaving aside the impending shortage of Class 1 nickel, mining inevitably has an impact on an asset's surroundings. The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) has defined a set of Mining Principlesaimed at maximizing the benefits to local communities, while minimizing the … See more
BHP studies potential for using nickel mine waste to …
BHP Group is looking at the potential to use the waste from its Australian nickel mining operations to capture and store carbon and will conduct field trials this financial year. It is also ...
Eight ways to ensure Indonesia's nickel sector is …
2. Incentives for decarbonization and waste management. According to Gani, the nature of the mining and processing industry makes it challenging to be entirely …
Nickel Mining Waste Damages Lasolo Conservation Area
Thick mud from nickel mining sedimentation is covering the waters in North Konawe, Southeast Sulawesi, as monitored in 2023. The waters in the conservation area are affected by the thick mud and heavy metals. The condition of Lasolo Bay TWA waters is damaged due to nickel mining waste. Biodiversity is threatened.
Impacts for half of the world's mining areas are …
Publicly available data on mine production, waste, pollution and consumption of water and energy are widely lacking. ... The Mandiodo nickel mining block of Sulawesi, Indonesia, stands out in ...
New technology could cement Indonesia's dominance of vital nickel
Even if the waste is stored properly, deforested mining land erodes rapidly, especially given the intensity of the tropical rains. Run-off from mines can contaminate rivers and lakes.
Influence of the Trojan Nickel Mine on surface water quality, …
The impacts of mining on the environment depend on the nature of the ore body, the type of mining and the size of operation. The focus of this study is on Trojan Nickel Mine which is located 90. km north of Harare, Zimbabwe.. It produces nickel from iron, iron–nickel and copper–nickel sulphides and disposes of waste rock in a rock dump.
Half a million hectares of Indonesian forest under threat …
An area larger than Singapore has already been deforested to make way for nickel mines in Indonesia with a further half a million hectares of forest under threat as …
Knowledge for a brighter future
Find out more about the story of nickel, from mining and production through to sustainability and recycling. NiPERA 1980-2020. 40 years of nickel science. Learn more . The recycling of nickel. Recycling metals such as nickel creates win-win scenarios for both the environment and industry.
Simulation of Contaminants Transport in Groundwater From Nickel Mining
The nickel mining system applied in Indonesia is an open-pit mine. The irregularities of nickel resource mining in Indonesia cause many serious environmental problems. Piles of leftover rocks in nickel mining waste dumps have the potential to be a source of heavy metal pollutants such as Pb, Cd, Cr, Fe, Cu, Zn, and Ni (Ngkoimani & …
Nickel price: Indonesia halts deep-sea mining disposal
Indonesia will no longer permit mining waste to be disposed in the ocean to allay concerns about the environmental impact of processing nickel used in electric vehicle (EV) batteries, a government ...
New Benchmark Study Highlights Impacts of Nickel and Cobalt Mining …
Due to the resulting vegetation change, mining activities cause carbon sequestration services loss of 4.8 g and 6.5 g of CO 2 e respectively for nickel, and 9.3g of CO 2 e for cobalt per year.
Indonesian miners eyeing EV nickel boom seek to …
Nickel mining, increasingly pushed to meet rising demand for batteries, has long been a core industry for Indonesia. Smelting for battery nickel produces large …
Dirty Nickel, Clean Power: Making the Ocean …
By the first decade of this century, the company had expanded into timber, palm oil, gold, and nickel mining, making its owner, Lim Hariyanta Wijaya Sarwono, a billionaire. In 2008, mining ...
Characteristics of Nickel Laterite Mine Waste in Caraga …
The nickel laterite mine waste can be reused to further extract the metals when sources of higher grades are depleted, repurposed such as in the production of bricks and ceramics, or mined-out mines can be repurposed for renewable energy sources such as solar and wind farms. INTRODUCTION In the next several years, humanity will face extreme ...
Indonesia: Two workers die after nickel waste heap collapses at nickel
"2 workers killed in nickel waste landslide at China-owned plant in Indonesia", 28 April 2023. Two workers died after being buried under a heap of nickel waste at a processing plant in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province, the company said Friday, adding credence to allegations of poor and unsafe labor conditions at the …
Locals stage latest fight against PNG mine dumping waste …
The world's most productive battery nickel plant, Ramu NiCo, has been dumping millions of tons of mine waste into the waters of Papua New Guinea since 2012.
The contentious path to a cleaner future | MIT Technology …
From cement and steel to nickel and lithium, the ingredient list for the clean energy transition is a long one. And in some cases, getting our hands on all those materials won't be simple, and ...
Protecting the Environment— Nickel Asia Corporation
The manual summarizes the common environmental procedures of the mining companies and was approved by the operating companies' respective managements and NAC's senior management in 2019. Download the file: NAC Environmental Manual. Below is the individual Environment policy of NAC and its operating mining companies.
Frontiers | Nickel Ore Mining Waste as a Promising Source …
The use of nickel (Ni) in batteries and catalysts has greatly increased waste generation from Ni ore mining and led to environmental contamination. One strategy for reducing the negative environmental and economic impacts of the mining industry is to process the byproduct of Ni ore mining for use as a clean alternative to conventional ...