GTK SMARTTEST – Long Term Field-Testing Platform for Developing Extractive Waste Management and Mine Closure Solutions
GTK SMARTTEST is a customizable and modular field-testing platform for tailings, waste rocks, and side streams. It promotes the circular economy and responsible extractive waste management. Large-scale field tests provide reliable data on the performance of both waste management and closure solutions and enhance the utilization of side streams. GTK SMARTTEST is a new service within GTK Mintec’s mineral research laboratories and industrial-scale pilot plant in Outokumpu, Finland.
Reduced environmental impact
Helps develop innovative waste management solutions to minimize environmental impacts.
Improved resource efficiency
Optimizes the use of waste materials to increase sustainability and reduce waste.
Real-time data
Provides geochemical and geotechnical insights in real-time to support waste management decisions.
Early-stage testing
Enables cost-efficient and repeatable testing in the early stages of mining projects alongside mineral processing tests.
Versatile testing opportunities
Allows for testing of cover structures, disposal techniques (dry stacking, paste disposal, co-disposal), long-term behaviour, and effluent quality.
Field tests provide long-term data for safe and responsible extractive waste management.
The management of extractive waste such as tailings and waste rocks requires extensive areas. Many types of extractive waste also involve a risk of seepage waters containing harmful substances entering the environment. GTK SMARTTEST testing platform helps to develop solutions to mitigate these risks and promotes responsible waste management strategies.
The environmental impacts of extractive waste can be managed by means of various environmental protection structures, which should function throughout the life cycle of the operations and even after mine closure.
Comprehensive and globally unique testing facility GTK SMARTTEST
GTK Mintec – a pilot plant and laboratories for the circular economy and mineral processing
GTK Mintec is a globally unique service provider. It combines mineral research laboratories with an industrial-scale pilot plant and a testing platform for the long-term behaviour of extractive waste. GTK Mintec offers research and testing services throughout the value chain from ore deposits to the closing of mines and the reuse of materials.
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