Application of Sulphur and Sulfuric Binders for Creation of Tailing Ponds’ Protected Surface Layer for Decreasing its Dustings

Abstract

There were considered negative applications of dusty materials’ tailings influence on environment from Norilsk Industrial Region. There are offered methods of control negative applications on environment by means of tailings’ dusting surface’s constraint. There were tested for constraint of dusting surfaces physical fixers or chemical bounding, such as bitumen emulsion, styrene acrylic dispersion, liquid glass. There was demonstrated that main disadvantages of these ways of dusting tailings’ constraint are use of expensive materials and possibility of work performance only at warm and dry periods. There was reasonable for dust control from tailing ponds use molten sulphur, i.e. secondary product of sulfide ores processing. There were carrying out investigations of main performance parameters of protected covering.