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Efficiency Gains When Using Activated Mill Tailings in Underground Mining

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Global challenges, including increased consumption of mineral raw materials, climatic changes, and the exhaustibility of reserves, increase the relevance of mineral mining problems. In the article, the issue of the comprehensive mining waste utilization is considered. The experimental results confirm the effect caused by the mechanochemical activation of metal-containing geomaterials under high-energy impacts, increasing the recovery of useful components, as considerations concerning the time-spatial flow of non-linear manifestations during goaf formation and the properties of activated binders based on recycled materials in filling mixtures.

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    V. S. Brigida

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  3. Satbayev National Research University, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan

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Translated from Metallurg, Vol. 67, No. 3, pp. 108–116, March, 2023. Russian DOI: https://doi.org/10.52351/00260827_2023_03_108.

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Brigida, V.S., Golik, V.I., Klyuev, R.V. et al. Efficiency Gains When Using Activated Mill Tailings in Underground Mining. Metallurgist 67, 398–408 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11015-023-01526-z

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