The Economic Significance of Copper Mine Tailings Disposal

Mineral resources are important material foundation for human survival and social development. The mining industry is the foundation of national economy, which provide 95% of energy for the whole nation, 80% of industrial raw materials and more than 70% of the agricultural means of production. Mineral resources provide the important material guarantee for China's economic and social sustainability.

Over the past 50 years, China's GDP has increased by more than ten times, while the mineral resource consumption has increased by more than 40 times. There are serious problems in the mining economic development: The imbalances between supply and demand; The shortage of backup resource; The extensive exploitation and utilization, and serious resource waste and destruction; Environmental pollution and ecological destruction. So the copper mine tailings disposal is of great significance for economic development.

Faced up with situation of the constantly increasing demand of resources and energy, we can make use of advanced mineral processing equipment for mining. However, we still have certain difficulties in processing copper mine tailings. For this case, we have to innovate independently on mineral processing equipment, instead of imitating others blindly. At the same time, to strengthen international cooperation to gain a major breakthrough in ore dressing equipment technologies. With the continuous innovation of high and new technologies on manufacturing mode and manufacturing craft, to minimize the environmental pollution and energy consumption, and to maximize resource utilization, thus can finally realize the harmonization between enterprise economic benefits and social benefits.