Mine Water Reuse and Recycling Systems

Supporting Operational Continuity, Compliance, and Capital Efficiency in Water-Constrained Environments

Mining operations are increasingly defined by how they manage water in dry climates, with closed-loop water systems becoming the new standard for water security and the benchmark for innovation.

As capabilities evolve, effective water reuse becomes not just a technical question, but also a compliance question. From permitting through operations, mines are expected to demonstrate control, containment, and continuity across every project phase. This means infrastructure must be designed to operate across conditions and in full alignment with regulatory expectations.

Challenges We Help Solve

  • System performance, including variable flow rates and inlet water chemistry

  • Permit application including supporting design documentation and reuse justification

  • Tracking treatment performance to validate compliance and optimize operations

  • Optimizing reuse design and site-wide water balance planning, removing bottlenecks or redundancy

  • Management and execution of performance risk, where no one party owns system performance from design to operation

Our Approach

Permit-Driven System Architecture

Permit-Driven System Architecture

Our reuse systems integrate permit logic directly into the system design, aligning water management infrastructure requirements with water reuse treatment parameters. This approach is particularly effective when working in water-scarce regions where discharge and drawdown conditions are tightly regulated.

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Water Treatment Systems Tailored for Reuse

Our systems are designed to meet the realities of mining operations—seasonal fluctuations, variable influent quality, and complex reuse pathways. Whether supporting internal loops, such as heap leach irrigation, or reducing freshwater draw for dust suppression, our designs enable efficient, low-footprint treatment that can scale up or scale down to respond to evolving site demands.

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Monitoring That Tracks Reuse Impact

We embed monitoring systems that reflect how treated water is used. From storage basin feedback loops to reuse application coverage, our approach helps operators demonstrate internal control and continuity of performance, both operationally and for compliance reporting.

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Continuity from Commissioning to Operations

We remain engaged through commissioning and into operations, supporting SOP development and operational optimization aligned with real-time site data.  

Execution Risk Management

Aligned Delivery, Accountable Outcomes

Under traditional delivery models, underperforming water treatment systems are often the result of a multi-company approach between engineering, equipment vendors, and operators. Our delivery models align incentives and provide mine developers with opportunities to unify functions and reduce interface risk to operations.

Design-Supply Incentives

Our design-supply model offers a higher-accountability alternative to traditional equipment sourcing. We design and assemble treatment systems in-house, enabling us to deliver pre-engineered packages with tighter cost control and higher accountability for performance.

For mining reuse applications, this option prevents common execution challenges that occur between design consultants, equipment vendors, and integrators, providing project execution with greater control and accountability.

Water-as-a-Service

Our Water-as-a-Service (WaaS) delivery option provides full-lifecycle reuse infrastructure under a single performance agreement. We manage the design, delivery, and ongoing operations, shifting performance responsibility away from the mine operator.

This model is ideal for capital preservation strategies. It provides a means for mining projects to achieve long-term treatment goals with financial clarity and minimal infrastructure burden on internal teams.

Fixed Price Delivery

Our fixed price model is tailored for mining clients with established internal operations teams who prefer to offload execution risks and value a delivery partner with technical depth and integrated system execution.

Mine Water Reuse and Recycling

Who We Work With

Operations Leads

Making internal reuse systems consistent, trackable, and aligned with production demands without exposing the site to unnecessary compliance risk.

Environmental and Permitting Managers

Support application packages and document how the system will meet ongoing compliance standards.

Capital Projects Teams

Design and build reuse systems to integrate with broader site infrastructure.

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