Mining

Optimizing Water Management for Sustainable Mining Operations

Water is essential across all phases of mining: mineral extraction, processing, dust suppression, site rehabilitation, and more. Kurita delivers comprehensive and sustainable water treatment solutions tailored to the unique needs of the mining industry ensuring regulatory compliance and operational efficiency.

Kurita works with you to meet local, state, and federal discharge requirements as well as to reduce environmental impact, including but not limited to water consumption and CO₂ emissions production.

Working with your team in either new site development or existing plant optimization, Kurita is your long-term partner from design to operation across markets in the mining industry, including hard and soft rock mining; solution mining; gold, copper, uranium, and rare earth extraction; and coal and mineral processing.

Kurita’s Mining Water Treatment Capabilities

Leveraging decades of expertise, Kurita offers advanced chemistry, engineering, and equipment to create holistic sustainable mining water solutions.

Process Water Treatment

Kurita offers a variety of pre-treatment solutions to remove suspended solids, heavy metals, and organics. Along with customized filtration and clarification technologies, Kurita provides Avista™ Membrane Treatment Solutions – a combination of chemical and analytical services – to keep systems at peak performance.

Along with pre-treatment, Kurita designs and delivers water reuse processes in mining strategies to reduce water consumption and costs.

Digital Monitoring & Automation

In the field or in the office, Kurita ensures you are current with our real-time system performance tracking. Along with this is predictive maintenance and compliance reporting tools, Kurita helps you optimize your mining camp water systems.

Modular & Mobile Solutions

Using our engineering and service teams, Kurita builds skid-mounted and containerized systems for remote mining camps. Our scalable designs to adapt to fluctuating site populations and project phases, ensuring proper tailings water management and acid mine drainage treatment.

Wastewater & Tailings Management

No matter the challenge, Kurita has a solution, including the treatment of acid mine drainage (AMD) and contaminated pit water. Kurita has a broad portfolio of mine wastewater treatment solutions, including sludge dewatering and recovery of metals and minerals from tailings using crystallization and evaporation technologies.