The Rix’s Creek coal mining operation, part of the Bloomfield Group, set out to improve its onsite coal tailings management as part of its sustainability strategy to reduce water and energy consumption and minimize the surface footprint of waste handling processes. After evaluating various technologies, Rix’s Creek engineers installed an Alfa Laval decanter centrifuge to dry coal tailings . The result? Savings in capital expenditures as well as, about 90% recovery and re-use of the process water. Located in New South Wales, Rix’s Creek is an open cut coal mining operation that produces an estimated 2.58 M tonnes of raw coal and 1.49 M tonnes of saleable thermal and semi-soft coking coal each year for use in the steel and power industries. With the existing tailings dam near

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