Specific Mining Applications: Pit-to-Port Safety and Compliance
Solutions for Drill & Blast, Haul Roads, Underground, and Processing Centers
Our comprehensive Pit-to-Port dust suppression strategies are engineered to achieve verifiable MSHA compliance for every part of your operation. We ensure total worker safety from the source by using water-activating fluids like GRT: 12X in Drill & Blast activities and long chain polymers on high-traffic haul roads. For underground and processing centers, we develop site-specific dust mitigation plans that enhance operational efficiency and regulatory compliance, ensuring the environment and local communities are protected from hazardous fugitive dust.
The North American Authority in MSHA Dust Control & Safety
Our MSHA-Compliant Products are Engineered by Experts to Deliver Verifiable Risk Reduction.
TeraFil’s Engineered Solutions Guarantee:
-Verifiable MSHA compliance and audit readiness.
-40% reduction in operational spending (OpEx).
-Elimination of hazardous silica exposure risks.
-5x greater water efficiency than conventional methods.
Our expertise is trusted by the world’s largest mining and quarrying companies, including BHP, Anglo American, and many more. TeraFil provides proven, sustainable management strategies for underground and open-cut mining infrastructure, ensuring effective Pit-to-Port fugitive dust control. We deliver significant cost savings and reliable performance as either a retrofit solution or integrated into new developments.
40% Cost Savings Achieved Over Conventional Watering Methods
95% Minimum Dust Reduction for MSHA Compliance & Worker Health
500% Improvement in Haul Road Watering Efficiency with GRT Polymers
Drill & Blast: MSHA Compliance and Silica Exposure Reduction
Eliminating Respirable Dust at the Source: Water-Activating Fluids & Binders
The Challenge: Hazardous Respirable Dust
Drilling activities generate ultra-fine, hazardous dust which is often hydrophobic. A key challenge is suppressing this dynamic dust, as water alone cannot work fast enough to capture it. Piles of drill cuttings contain large amounts of this hazardous dust, which includes respirable crystalline silica and coal dust that lead to debilitating lung diseases like silicosis and coal workers pneumoconiosis.
Our Engineering Controls: Verifiable MSHA Solutions
TeraFil’s GRT: 12X super-activates drill water to ensure fine, hazardous dust is captured – forcing airborne particles to drop out of suspension.
TeraFil’s GRT: DC Binder is a cost-effective, broad-scale polymer binder that locks down drill cuttings and the blast pattern area, preventing wind and traffic-generated dust.
Haul Road Dust Control: Eliminating Fugitive Dust Risk
Engineered Long Chain Polymers to Boost Water Efficiency by up to 500%
The Challenge: MSHA Visibility and Respiratory Hazards
Left untreated, fugitive dust from unsealed haul roads poses a severe MSHA compliance risk due to impaired visibility and poor respiratory health for workers. Managing dust by continual watering is inefficient; it leads to road degradation, increased slip potential, and wastes critical resources and fuel.
Our Engineering Control: Maximum Efficiency & Safety
TeraFil’s GRT: Haul-Loc long chain polymer is the most cost-effective haul road dust control solution. It improves water efficiency by up to 500%, extending the dust suppressing effects up to five times longer than water alone. This verifiable performance greatly reduces the water consumed by suppression and saves fuel, truck hours, and labor resources.
Our Haul-Loc technology is engineered to deliver immediate ROI. See how clients achieve verified savings of up to 40% on total project OpEx and save over 30 million gallons of water per project.
Long-Term Surface Management: Waterless Control for Yards & Access Roads
Synthetic Fluid Technology for Durable, All-Weather Site Infrastructure.
The Challenge: Logistics Downtime and Health Hazards
Logistics, workshop, and storage yards generate hazardous fugitive dust from constant heavy traffic, impacting worker safety, visibility, and compliance. These difficult-to-access areas often require complex, costly maintenance and cannot be serviced efficiently with large water trucks. Building high-quality, all-weather roads using on-site materials is challenging and resource intensive.
Our Engineering Control: Waterless Durability & Safety
TeraFil’s GRT: Wet-Loc synthetic fluid is a unique, hard-wearing, long-lasting waterless technology designed to handle heavy and damaging traffic movements. It offers exceptional long-term performance and is actively re-workable on a wide range of surfaces, including gravel, sand, clay, and most native soils, ensuring continuous site safety.
Underground Mining, Transfer & Processing
CHALLENGES
Fine dust from underground mining such as coal and silica is by nature hydrophobic (water-hating) and at the microscopic level repels water – so despite the volumes used, the finest particles simply bounce off of sprayed water. These fine particles are the most hazardous to health, leading to diseases such as black lung, Silicosis and other respiratory ailments.
Crushing, processing & transfer of ore produces large amounts of airborne dust in and around the areas of the ROM, Crushers, OHP, Transfer Points and stockpiles.
OUR SOLUTIONS
TeraFil’s GRT: Activate UG super-activates water sprayed to control dust in longwall, continuous miner and hard rock operations causing the water to immediately captures airborne particles, forcing them to drop out of suspension in the air.
TeraFil’s GRT: Activate is used to super-activate water sprayed to control dust in material crushing, transfer & handling operations and optimising ore/water conditions for effective dust control.
Our underground mining solutions are 12X more effective than water alone. Get your copy of the free report.
Broadscale Dust & Erosion Control
CHALLENGES
In large open mine sites, wind and water erosion generates dust and impacts earthworks, spoil stockpiles, mine tailings and off-site other land users by causing siltation and dust deposition over wide areas.
OUR SOLUTIONS
TeraFil’s GRT: Soil-Loc is a cost-effective, broad-scale dust suppression and wind erosion technology designed to protect sensitive exposed surfaces. solves wind and rain erosion problems – keeping your material where you need it the most.
TeraFil’s GRT: Soil Loc-Resources is a long-lasting wind and water erosion control and waterproofing solution of treated surfaces.
Transport & Destination
CHALLENGES
Left uncovered dust from conveyors, large mineral stockpiles or pulverised minerals in transit can have a considerable impact on the environment and the quality of life for local communities.
OUR SOLUTIONS
TeraFil’s GRT: Ore-Loc is a robust, liquid polymer that provides an exceptional surface coating/crusting solution on all ore and material surface types. Used as a liquid tarping agent, TeraFil Ore-Loc prevents the loss of materials whilst in stockpile, transport and while waiting at the port.
TeraFil’s Unique Product Features
Non Hazardous
Dries Transparent Clear
Non Corrosive & Safe
Simple & Easy to Apply
Non Flammable & Non Volatile
Water Resistant
Non Leeching
Biodegradable
Non Dissipating
Dries Completely Odorless
Ultraviolet Ray Resistant
Environmentally Safe