The Mercury Waste Management project is amended by a technical/chemical and economic assessment of mercury-containing and mercury-contaminated tailings from the mining sector in developing countries. A feasibility study is undertaken in at least two developing countries that produced/produce precious metals or mercury and are left with mercury-containing tailings.
In the mining sector, mercury has two roles:
- Mercury is extracted from cinnabar as a sellable product
- Mercury is used in the extraction of precious metals such as gold, silver, copper and others
The project produced the following outputs:
- Report on technical and economic criteria for processing mercury-containing tailings (April 2010)
- Chile feasibility study
- Ghana feasibility study
