Cemented paste backfill for mineral tailings management: Review and future perspectives

C Qi, A Fourie - Minerals Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Environmental issues associated with tailings management have made it the most daunting
challenge faced by the mining industry. To dispose mineral tailings in a technical …

Stabilization and encapsulation of arsenic-/antimony-bearing mine waste: Overview and outlook of existing techniques

E Álvarez-Ayuso - Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Arsenic and antimony are metalloids that exhibit similar geochemical behavior and are often
found in the same mineral associations, co-occurring in mine waste derived from ore …

Mechanical behavior, acoustic emission properties and damage evolution of cemented paste backfill considering structural feature

J Wang, J Fu, W Song, Y Zhang, Y Wang - Construction and Building …, 2020 - Elsevier
Layered filling is easy to lead to layered structure of cemented paste backfill (CPB). To
understand the mechanical behavior, failure modes, and damage evolution of layered …

Effects of slag-based cementitious material on the mechanical behavior and heavy metal immobilization of mine tailings based cemented paste backfill

F Zhang, Y Li, J Zhang, X Gui, X Zhu, C Zhao - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
Slag-based cementitious material was synthesized from blast furnace slag, clinker, gypsum,
and activator to replace cement in cemented paste backfill (CPB). We researched the …

Cemented backfill using Ca (OH) 2-pretreated phosphogypsum as aggregate: Hydration characteristics, structural features and strength development

C Min, Y Shi, X Lu, Z Liu, Y Zhou - Construction and Building Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Impurities present in phosphogypsum (PG) limited its use as an aggregate in underground
mining construction materials. This study pretreated PG with varying Ca (OH) 2 contents …

Curing temperature dependency of the release of arsenic from cemented paste backfill made with Portland cement

AJ Bull, M Fall - Journal of Environmental Management, 2020 - Elsevier
In this research, the effect of curing temperature on the metalloid (As) leachability of
cemented paste backfill (CPB; a mix of tailings, cement and water) is studied. ASTM C 1308 …

Energy and deformation field evolution characteristics of layered cemented paste backfill under cyclic loading and unloading

B Wang, L Yang, Q Li, M Kang, C Liu, S Gan - Journal of Building …, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to the mining environment, layered cemented paste backfill (LCPB) is usually subjected
to the cyclic pressure. Therefore, it is of great significance to investigate the mechanical …

Temperature dependence of the reactivity of cemented paste backfill

Z Aldhafeeri, M Fall, M Pokharel, Z Pouramini - Applied geochemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
The environmental performance of cemented paste backfill (CPB; a mixture of tailings, water
and binder), which contains sulphide mineral-bearing tailings, is strongly influenced by its …

Effect of construction and demolition waste on the long-term geo-environmental behaviour of cemented paste backfill

T Yılmaz, B Ercikdi - International Journal of Environmental Science and …, 2022 - Springer
The construction and demolition waste (CDW) could be used as backfill material to fill the
voids created during the ore production in underground mining. However, there is a need to …

Thermally induced changes in metalloid leachability of cemented paste backfill that contains blast furnace slag

AJ Bull, M Fall - Minerals Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
In this research, the effect of curing temperature on the Arsenic (As (III)) leachability of
cemented paste backfill (CPB) that contains blast furnace slag (OPC/Slag-CPB) are studied …