Mining Mineral Processing Water Management Service

Neo-Solutions’ team of water management experts includes professionals with over 40 years of experience managing water in mining environments. We bring this experience, along with our proven portfolio of products to your site so you can meet the most difficult challenges.

Neo-Solutions is SKILLED IN BOTH THE ART AND SCIENCE™ of mining, including:

• Industrial Minerals Sand Mining
• Sand & Gravel
• Proppant (Frac) Sand
• Quarry Operations (Granite, Marble)
• Soft Rock (Coal)
• Acid Mine Drainage Remediation
• Oxides, Carbonates & Silicates
• Hard Rock (Iron Ore, Sulfide Ore)

Thickener, Clarifier & Remote Area Operations

Performance of thickener and clarifier operations is essential to providing clean process water. Our full line of coagulants and flocculants allows our customers to achieve their goals and offers these advantages:

• Excellent water clarity for re-use or final discharge
• Proper underflow density
• Fast settling rates for high thickener and clarifier efficiency
• Stable floc characteristics to resist breakdown & solids losses
• Reduction or elimination of floc carryover

Our flocculant tablets and polymer gel blocks are used in remote areas, ponds, and lagoons, as well as in soil erosion and runoff situations. They require no equipment and are ready-to-use solutions.

Foaming Problems Negatively Impact Operations

Undesirable foaming may be the result of water contaminants leading to:

• Poor Process Efficiency
• Loss of Recovery
• Difficulty with Flow Rates & Pumping
• Spillage from Weirs, Launders & Clarifiers
• Safety Issues

Using our application expertise and our proven line of antifoam and defoamer products enables our customers to control foam-related issues.

Dewatering Applications are Essential to Operations

Proper dewatering of solids is important to conserve water while achieving low transportation costs, good handling characteristics, and/or meeting necessary remediation requirements.

Neo-Solutions has developed a proprietary line of filter (dewatering) aids that lower operating costs and deliver target filter cake moistures.

Applications Benefiting From Dewatering Aids

• Dewatering screens, including ones that reduce product moisture
• Weeping to reduce product moisture & drying time
• Plate & frame filter presses & pressure filters to reduce final cake moisture, improve tons per cycle, reduce cycle times & increase filter media life
• Vacuum filters, such as vacuum belt, rotary disc, rotary drum, and pan filters to reduce moisture, improve productivity, reduce media blinding & increase filter cloth life
• Belt filter presses for increased throughput, drier cake yield, improved cake handling, decreased belt blinding & reduced chemical usage
• Equipment used to dewater tailings for “dry stacking” & tailings rheology management
• Equipment-less alternatives to “dry stack,” sometimes called “mud stacking”

Solidification

Neo-Solutions’ stiffening (solidification) products can be used when the actual percentage of moisture is not critical, yet the tailings or product materials need to handle as though they are drier. These specialized Neo-Solutions products improve handling for transport or material placement.

Equipment Freeze Control Applications

During cold weather, our freeze control product line and custom feed equipment help to start equipment easily, keep switches working, belts running without slipping, and hauling equipment releasing their loads.

Feed Equipment Capability

Neo-Solutions works collaboratively with best-in-class suppliers of feed systems, controls, and automation equipment to optimize products` cost performance, including simple solution feed systems, emulsion feed systems, and dry flocculant feed systems. We work with your chosen equipment supplier, or with one of our partners to meet your requirements. Through our equipment network, we can also provide our customers with support for turbidity and density management strategies.