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Emerging Trends

Another Observation From a Road Warrior! In the world of water and wastewater, emerging trends are beginning to influence the entire industry. In my travels around the country, I am discovering that issues in Arizona are also occurring in Washington, and issues in...

How to Improve Your Lagoon with Bioaugmentation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r91B25-vBI Kathleen Kelly shares 4 ways to improve your lagoon using bio augmentation. Perfect for industrial or municipal lagoons of any size and flow rate.

Webinar – Plant Startup with Tanner Hartsock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxpnrWdEUrw Tanner Hartsock M.S. takes us through the process of starting a wastewater plant and considers different options operators have in solving their challenges. What we didn’t expect was to get such a glowing endorsement from a...

Managing Septage and Grease Haulers

Road Warrior’s Series: Managing Haulers My first response when I hear of systems agreeing to take on Grease and/or Septic discharge to their system is to “just say NO!” How these materials affect wastewater systems is dependent...

Where Have All the Snowbirds Gone?

Another Road Warrior Observation F:M Issues In my travels this year, as limited as they have been (yes, I am suffering from severe hotel withdrawal), I have observed a recurring issue hampering the optimum efficiency of wastewater operations. This issue is the lack of...

Nitrification in Cold Weather

One thing that is definite is understanding of when water temperatures get cold your bugs may not be so happy. One thing that has continued to show up year after year for the last 25 years in the environmental business, especially the wastewater industry, is the idea...

Public Education FOG

https://youtu.be/IRMsv0xzfQY Rick Allen discusses methods for educating the public on fats, oils and grease. This is a short webinar that lasts about 18 minutes.

Biological Nutrient Removal

Biological nutrient removal (BNR) is a process used for nitrogen and phosphorus removal from wastewater before it is discharged. BNR Challenges Conventional biological processes typically do not remove total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP) to meet the...

Wastewater System Restart or Initial Start Up?

In the world of wastewater these days there are many challenges that will occur. Some you may have already seen and some may appear in the near future.  One of these many challenges is how to get your plant activated if it is killed off by known or...

Corn Testimonial

Corn Testimonial

Darwin Jeffers of Phillips County, CO used BioLynceus® Lot 125® on his 2010 Conservation Reserve...

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Pinto Valley Mine Tailings Project

Disturbed soil environments are especially harsh for rebalancing the soil. In our applications BioLynceus® continues to successfully remediate mining tailings, road projects, and disturbed soils. They have brought deteriorated soils back to vital environments with soil enhancing chemical-free products. This addition of beneficial nutrients has created enhanced revegetation growth in benign soils.

Below are photographs of Pinto Valley Copper Mine. Here we see the impact of BioLynceus® Lot 125® on oat grass planted to revegetate Mine Tailings. The areas treated showed significant improvement in root zone and plant development. The picture below shows the root zone development in the treated and untreated plants.

The mining operation requires over one million tons of ore every week. Most of the ore is granite and other minerals. Less than one percent is copper, usually the grade runs from 0.2 to 0.4 percent. Crushing the ore allows for the extraction of copper. This then results in approximately one million tons of crushed ore (Mine Tailings) per week. Mine Tailing piles become extremely high quickly. This material contains no organic material. Therefore, it is difficult to germinate or sustain plant growth. And Arizona state law, which took effect in 1992, requires that these mining piles be either capped or reclaimed (revegetated).

Capping has been extremely costly, and revegetation of the piles has been challenging. Jesse Mitchell, BHP Environmental Technician, has pioneered innovative revegetation programs which have started the process of growing plants on the benign tailings. Mitchell used BioLynceus® soil remediation products. Thereby resulting in biologically softened mine waste material. Additionally, this adds carbon and life into the material.

The program demonstrated that reproduction of vegetation is possible with soil remediation with BioLynceus® pro-organic, probiotic programs. Mining operations are looking for economical ways to accomplish the closure requirements of the EPA and the AZDEQ, without costly financial closure expenses. The bio-organic program of BioLynceus® provides an economical alternative to help remediate the Mine Tailings. The result of BioLynceus® Lot 125 Program is soil that will allow the growth of vegetation.

Below are photographs of Pinto Valley Copper Mine. Here we see the impact of BioLynceus® Lot 125® on oat grass planted to revegetate Mine Tailings. The areas treated showed significant improvement in root zone and plant development.

Case study by Pay Dirt Mining Magazine®