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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2013
Applicant:
Syncrude Canada Ltd. IN Trust for the Owners of the Syncrude Project As Such Owners Exist Now and IN the Future, Fort McMurray, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B09B 1/00 (2006.01); B02C 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B02C 19/0056 (2013.01); B09B 1/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A process for enhancing the solidification of tailings is provided comprising providing overburden having a moisture content ranging from about 15 wt % to about 25 wt % and comminuting the overburden to a first size; providing tailings having a solids content ranging from about 1 wt % to about 70 wt %; adding the tailings to the first sized overburden to form treated overburden and comminuting the treated overburden to a second size; and depositing the second sized treated overburden to produce a substantially solidified deposit.