Print Email Facebook Twitter A new procedure for deep sea mining tailings disposal Title A new procedure for deep sea mining tailings disposal Author Ma, W. (TU Delft Transport Engineering and Logistics) Schott, D.L. (TU Delft Transport Engineering and Logistics) Lodewijks, G. (University of New South Wales) Date 2017 Abstract Deep sea mining tailings disposal is a new environmental challenge related to water pollution, mineral crust waste handling, and ocean biology. The objective of this paper is to propose a new tailings disposal procedure for the deep sea mining industry. Through comparisons of the tailings disposal methods which exist in on-land mining and the coastal mining fields, a new tailings disposal procedure, i.e., the submarine–backfill–dam–reuse (SBDR) tailings disposal procedure, is proposed. It combines deep sea submarine tailings disposal, backfill disposal, tailings dam disposal, and tailings reuse disposal for the deep sea mining industry. Then, the analytic network process (ANP) method is utilized to evaluate the performances of different tailings disposal methods. The evaluation results of the ANP show that the new proposed tailings disposal procedure is the most suitable for the deep sea mining industry Subject analytic network process (ANP)deep sea miningenvironmental challengeSBDR tailings disposal procedurewaste handlingOA-Fund TU Delft To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:bf5cf32b-7a32-4aec-8041-ceae75f170b2 DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/min7040047 ISSN 2075-163X Source Minerals - Open Access Mining & Mineral Processing Journal, 7 (4) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2017 W. Ma, D.L. Schott, G. Lodewijks Files PDF minerals_07_00047.pdf 3.87 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:bf5cf32b-7a32-4aec-8041-ceae75f170b2/datastream/OBJ/view