Chemical solutions
for the sustainability
challenges of the
mining industry
Clariant Mining Solutions - Innovative Chemistry for Sustainability in the Mining Industry
Leveraging our technical expertise and our long history in mining, Clariant Mining Solutions develops innovative chemical solutions that address critical sustainability challenges of the mining industry.
We put our customers at the center of everything we do, and we work together to help them achieve six sustainability goals of the mining industry that are aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Six Mining Industry Sustainability Goals
Delivering minerals essential for the energy transition
Supporting the energy transition with high-performance mining chemicals, including flotation reagents that optimize mineral processing and enhance recovery of copper, lithium, and other decarbonization minerals. Explore our solutions
Supporting the decarbonization of the steelmaking value chain
Delivering higher grades and improving recovery with flotation reagents for iron ore and enabling the production of low-silica pellets to support the decarbonization of the steelmaking industry with high-performance pelletizing binders. Explore our solutions
Improving energy efficiency
Optimizing the recovery of minerals contained within coarse size fractions with specialized collectors and frothers for coarse particle flotation to reduce energy consumption in grinding processes. Explore our solutions
Managing tailings storage facilities in alignment with the GISTM
Helping mining operations implement the Global Industry Standard for Tailings Management (GISTM) by minimizing risks in tailings storage facilities with filter aids to improve tailings filtration and flotation solutions to help recover valuable minerals from tailings. Explore our solutions
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Optimizing water usage
Helping beneficiation plants maximize water recovery with rheology modifiers for tailings handling and dewatering and water conditioning agents for heavy metal and cyanide removal. Explore our solutions
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Minimizing use of hazardous chemicals in operations
Helping the mining industry replace hazardous chemicals with safer and less toxic alternatives, such as xanthate replacement collectors, copper depressants that replace NaSH and PFAS-free acid mist suppressants. Explore our solutions
Our Core Expertise
Sulfide Ores
Optimize flotation recovery and grade with our collectors, frothers, and depressants for copper, molybdenum, gold, PGMs, lead, zinc, silver and polymetallic minerals
Iron Ores
Improve iron ore processing results with our flotation reagents, agglomeration additives, and filtration aids
Fertilizers & Industrial Minerals
Optimize flotation recovery and grade with our customized flotation reagents for phosphates, potash, silica, lithium, niobium and titanium. Improve fertilizer handling with customized fertilizer additives
Emulsifiers for Explosives
Enhance the stability of your explosive emulsions with our emulsifiers and optimize your supply chain with our fuel phases for explosive emulsions
Tailings Management
Optimize tailings handling with our chemical solutions for flotation, filtration, and pumping of tailings
Decarbonization Minerals
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Maximize mineral recovery with our specialized flotation reagents for minerals for the energy transition including nickel, rare earths, cobalt and graphite
Global Expertise in Mining
Clariant Mining Solutions offers high-performance chemical solutions that optimize mineral processing with a focus on sustainability and operational excellence.
Our global network of technical experts, application laboratories, R&D centers, and sales teams throughout the world provides local support with international expertise, allowing us to develop customized solutions and respond quickly to the specific challenges of each operation. This global structure is strengthened by centers of competence dedicated to strategic mining segments.
Our Specialized Mining Competence Centers
Competence Center for Sulfide Minerals
Clariant's Competence Center for Sulfide Minerals, located in Santiago, Chile, develops innovative flotation reagents designed for the beneficiation of sulfide ores. Our competence center combines cutting-edge laboratory equipment with expert metallurgists to solve complex challenges in sulfide ore processing including copper, molybdenum, gold, silver, and polymetallic ores.
Our technical specialists collaborate directly with mining companies worldwide, analyzing site-specific ore samples to develop customized collectors, frothers and depressants for flotation and to optimize critical parameters for each unique mineralogical profile.
This tailored approach delivers maximum mineral recovery rates, enhanced selectivity, and improved processing efficiency.
Competence Center for Iron Ore
Clariant's Competence Center for Iron Ore, located in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, is a center of excellence dedicated to supporting the global iron ore mining industry, leveraging our chemical and mineral processing expertise to deliver innovative solutions.
The Competence Center for Iron Ore is staffed with experienced technical specialists using state-of-the-art equipment to help customers optimize their iron ore processing operations with a special focus on collectors and frothers for flotation and binders for agglomeration.
Our experts work closely with mining companies to enhance beneficiation processes by improving recovery rates and concentrate grades and developing tailored solutions that address the specific challenges of each pelletizing operation.
Competence Center for Fertilizer and Industrial Minerals
Clariant's Competence Center for Fertilizer and Industrial Minerals, located in Dubai, UAE is dedicated to supporting the global fertilizer and industrial minerals mining industry, leveraging our chemical and mineral processing expertise to deliver innovative solutions.
Our competence center is staffed with experienced technical specialists to help customers optimize their mineral processing operations with customized flotation chemicals, processing additives for fertilizer production, and anticaking agents for finished products.
Our experts, in partnership with mining and fertilizer companies, enhance beneficiation and processing operations by improving recovery rates and concentrate grades, optimizing phosphate conversion efficiency, and developing tailored solutions that address the specific challenges of phosphate, potash, and industrial minerals operations.
Competence Center for Emulsifiers for Explosives
Clariant's Competence Center for Emulsifiers for Explosives, located in Lara, Australia develops innovative emulsifiers for explosives to help the explosives industry optimize their explosives formulations and their supply chain.
Our competence center is staffed with technical specialists using state-of-the-art equipment that help customers improve the performance of their explosives formulations and develop customized fuel phases to optimize the value chains of explosives manufacturers.
Our experts work closely with explosives manufacturers to enhance emulsion stability and viscosity and develop tailored solutions that address the specific challenges of different blasting applications.
Competence Center for Tailings Treatment
Clariant’s Competence Center for Tailings Treatment, located in Belo Horizonte, Brazil develops chemical solutions for tailings management aiming to help the mining industry maximize the value of tailings and minimize risk in tailings storage.
Our competence center combines state-of-the-art equipment with a multidisciplinary technical team to develop customized solutions for the unique tailings management challenges of each customer, specializing in four key technology platforms: flotation, magnetic separation, dewatering and rheology modification.
Clariant’s experts help mining operators improve tailings filtration and dry stacking, optimize water recovery, and recover minerals from tailings, supporting the mining industry’s goal of managing tailings storage facilities in alignment with the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM).
Competence Center for Decarbonization Minerals
Clariant's Competence Center for Decarbonization Minerals, located in Dubai, UAE develops innovative flotation reagents designed for the beneficiation of the critical minerals needed for the energy transition and decarbonization.
Our competence center is staffed with technical experts using state-of-the-art equipment to help customers solve the challenges of the processing of critical minerals for the energy transition such as rare earths and battery minerals including lithium, nickel, and cobalt.
Our specialists help customers optimize metallurgical performance by improving recovery and grade to maximize the value of their investments.
