CEEC Report: Transforming the Flowsheet for Tailings Workshop Report
Metplant, 2026
CEEC International convened this workshop on the topic Transforming the Flowsheet for Tailings: Innovation for a Sustainable Future, in order to test the proposition that better tailings outcomes depend on earlier, innovative and more integrated thinking by process engineers before decisions across processing, dewatering, deposition, storage and closure. The workshop is the first industry consultation aspart of CEEC's Global Tailings Initiative and was designed as an interactive technical session rather than a conventional conference presentation.
The workshop combined short technical presentations, a structured tailings game, group flowsheet design exercises and live polling. Participants were asked to work through contrasting archetype scenarios and then revisit their initial assumptions as new information was introduced on clay behaviour, water chemistry, particle size distribution, dewatering physics, storage strategies and closure implications.
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