The Tailings Technologies Open Call aims to identify and accelerate the market availability of innovative, holistic, and economically sustainable technologies that could significantly improve the dewatering, transportation and stacking of mine tailings, and in turn reduce potential safety risks associated with tailings facilities.
BHP and Rio Tinto are inviting global equipment and reagent suppliers, technology providers, start-up companies, and research groups who possess technologies which could contribute to this goal and may benefit from the assistance and support of the miners.
Interested parties are invited to submit high level, non-confidential information about their technology via the Tailings Technologies Innovation Platform. FCH together with the miners will then evaluate the potential of all submissions received considering the nature and maturity of the technology and the capabilities of the proponents.
Over time, BHP and Rio Tinto hope to identify a portfolio of high potential technologies and suitable partners with whom they can collaborate to help develop and accelerate market readiness and potential application at BHP and Rio Tinto operations.