Utilization of mill tailings, fly ash and slag as mine paste backfill material: Review and future perspective

SK Behera, DP Mishra, P Singh, K Mishra… - … and Building Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
An enormous amount of waste materials (tailings, fly ash and slag) are generated during
mineral processing, power generation and metallurgical processes. A vast literature on …

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 …

Effectiveness of alkali-activated slag as alternative binder on workability and early age compressive strength of cemented paste backfills

H Jiang, Z Qi, E Yilmaz, J Han, J Qiu, C Dong - Construction and Building …, 2019 - Elsevier
A full understanding of the workability and unconfined compressive strength (UCS) of
cemented paste backfill (CPB), made of alkali-activated slag (AAS) as an alternative binder …

[HTML][HTML] Mine wastes based geopolymers: A critical review

S Mabroum, S Moukannaa, A El Machi, Y Taha… - Cleaner Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
The quantities of waste rocks and tailings generated by the mining industry have been
increased in the last decades. The accumulation and the surface storage of these mine …

Strength development and microstructural investigation of lead-zinc mill tailings based paste backfill with fly ash as alternative binder

SK Behera, CN Ghosh, DP Mishra, P Singh… - Cement and Concrete …, 2020 - Elsevier
The increasing popularity of paste backfilling demands alternative binder optimisation and
bulk waste disposal. This study investigates the efficacy of fly ash (FA) as partial …

A review on different methods of activating tailings to improve their cementitious property as cemented paste and reusability

A Saedi, A Jamshidi-Zanjani, AK Darban - Journal of Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Over the past few decades, as demand for minerals and metals has increased, the amount
and volume of wastes and tailings has also increased dramatically. The management and …

Exploring the link between ultrasonic and strength behavior of cementitious mine backfill by considering pore structure

M Sari, E Yilmaz, T Kasap, S Karasu - Construction and Building Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the porosity/pore linkage and strength properties of cementitious mine
backfill (CMB) is essential for the design of underground mining filling. Adoption of new …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing fly ash utilization in backfill materials treated with CO2 carbonation under ambient conditions

I Ngo, L Ma, J Zhai, Y Wang - International Journal of Mining Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The environmental concerns resulting from coal-fired power generation that produces large
amounts of CO 2 and fly ash are of great interest. To mitigate, this study aims to develop a …

Lithium slag and fly ash-based binder for cemented fine tailings backfill

Y He, Q Chen, C Qi, Q Zhang, C Xiao - Journal of Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
This research work was an exploration of the feasibility of utilizing a lithium slag (LS) and fly
ash (FA)-based binder for cemented fine tailings backfill (CFTB). Extensive experiments …

Thermal and compressive behaviors of fly ash and metakaolin-based geopolymer

J Cai, X Li, J Tan, B Vandevyvere - Journal of Building Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper studies the heat evolution and compressive behavior of KOH activated
geopolymer materials based on low-calcium fly ash, metakaolin, and fly ash with slag. An …