Remediating Contaminated Mine Sites using ViroMine Technology

ViroMine Technology, provided by Virotec, has the remarkable ability to neutralise acid and remove heavy metals from drainage, process and wastewater across a wide range of applications.

This remarkable technology can be applied to economically treat Acid Rock Drainage (also referred to as Acid Mine Drainage or AMD), tailings dam water, sulphidic mine tailings, acid sulphate soils and waste rock dumps to:

• Permanently neutralise acid;

• Trap trace metals and prevent leaching; and,

• Enhance nutrient retention capacity and promote vigorous plant growth.

ViroMine Technology is a total and highly effective solution. Indeed, ViroMine Technology “may be the only acceptable and sustainable solution from an economic point of view to solve acid rock drainage and acid sulphate soils,” according to Professor Schuiling from the International Institute of Environ-mental Engineering in Delft, The Netherlands.