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IMPACT CASES

Betolar’s hybrid expertise breaks established ways of operating

The mining industry is the world’s largest single producer of waste. Every year, it leaves behind billions of tons of tailings—that is, fine-grained waste produced when valuable metals are separated from ore.

Betolar has developed a process that can extract up to 99 percent of the critical minerals contained in tailings. From the remaining material, the process produces green cement, whose carbon dioxide emissions are up to 90 percent lower than those of traditional cement.

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Globally, the mining industry produces approximately 14 billion tons of tailings that end up as waste each year. The amount of previously stored tailings is estimated at 217 billion tons.

The world’s largest waste problem is solved where it was created.

Impacts on Society

 1. Environmental Impacts:

  • Currently, tailings and other waste generated at mines end up in landfills as environmental waste. Betolar’s completely zero-waste process enables full utilization of mining tailings without anything going to landfill.
  • The process separates metals from tailings by up to 99 percent, significantly reducing the need to mine new deposits. Less mining means fewer emissions.
  • When metals are extracted from tailings, green cement is also produced. This reduces emissions from cement production by up to 90 percent.

2. Social Impacts:

  • Finland’s and the EU’s self-sufficiency and security of supply increase when the critical metals needed are obtained from domestic and European mine waste.

3. Economic Impacts:

  • The waste stream becomes a revenue stream, increasing the profitability of the mining and metal industries.
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Separating metals from tailings reduces emissions from cement production by up to 90 percent.

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Shall We Change Business and the World Together?

 

Courageously get in touch! Let’s sit down and consider how we could bring new insights to support the development of your business already in the first meeting.

Liisa Gadd


Sales Concepts and Commercialization

 

+358 400 876 991

liisa.gadd@brande.fi