Dundee Sustainable Technologies Completes Construction of Its Arsenic Stabilization Plant
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Dundee Sustainable Technologies Inc. (DST) has successfully achieved, as part of the commissioning of its newly constructed arsenic stabilization pilot plant, its first casting of arsenical glass, using DST’s proprietary technology. This technology is designed for the sequestration of arsenic in a stable glass form.
In December 2015, arsenical glass was smoothly casted from a stabilization trial run. The produced glass was submitted to the United States environmental protection agency’s (EPA) toxicity characterization leaching procedure and the non-toxicity of the arsenical glass was confirmed well below the norm.
DST’s process uses lower cost chemicals to economically produce a more stable product than current industrial practices. This process to stabilize arsenic is becoming an attractive technique to segregate the arsenic and is therefore opening new opportunities for remediation sites and for deposits or concentrates considered to contain too much arsenic to be exploited using conventional approaches.
The production of this glass is a major achievement in DST’s efforts to demonstrate the technical and economic viability of the arsenic stabilization technology on an industrial scale. DST will advance with strategic partners towards developing the technical and economic feasibility criteria for the implementation, on a commercial scale, of the DST process.
About Dundee Sustainable Technologies
The corporation is engaged in the development of environment-friendly technologies for the treatment of materials in the mining industry. Through the development of patented, proprietary processes, DST extracts precious and base metals from ores, concentrates and tailing, while stabilizing contaminants such as arsenic, which could not otherwise be extracted or stabilized with conventional processes because of metallurgical issues or environmental considerations.
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