Dust reduction achieved on average with our chemical solutions.
Our MSHA-compliant solutions represent the next generation of dust and surface control. By strategically deploying engineered synthetic fluids and long chain polymers, TeraFil guarantees long-term performance, stabilization of the road surface, and protection against windborne material loss. We ensure compliance, save water, and deliver an independently verified path to achieving 40% cost savings over conventional watering.
Engineered Chemistry: High Performance, Simple Site Integration
Our Solutions Span Three Core Chemical Mechanisms for Total Site Coverage
TeraFil develops its MSHA-compliant dust suppression technologies for maximum efficiency and seamless operational integration. Our water-activating fluids and advanced polymer solutions are designed to super-activate the water supply, ensuring long-lasting fugitive dust control and significantly reducing overall water usage. All products can be easily deployed through your existing equipment, including water trucks, misting systems, cannons, and overhead spray bar systems
GRT: Haul-Loc
Ultra-concentrate that uses TeraFil’s long chain polymer (LCP) technologies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of water cart operations by up to 500%. Save water, eliminate dust, and improve safety on your haul roads.
GRT: ACTIVATE UG
is a specialized water-activating fluid used to super-activate water sprayed to control dust in material crushing, transfer, and handling operations. Injected into existing spray systems, it penetrates material surfaces and intercepts airborne particles, immobilizing fugitive dust. This solution significantly reduces water consumption and is specifically designed to target harmful airborne coal and silica dusts, thereby stripping out hazardous particles and eliminating the cause of respiratory illness.
GRT: Wet-Loc
Non-drying and non-setting, synthetic fluid designed to adsorb into soil particles preventing them from becoming airborne. GRT Wet-Loc is a long-lasting, totally waterless application that is ideally suited to underground mining roads, areas of heavy damaging traffic such as tracked machinery routes, and race tracks (speedways and even horse and camel tracks).
GRT: 12X
GRT: 12X is an essential solution for Drill & Blast operations, engineered to super-activate drill water and ensure fine, hazardous dust is captured. This process targets the cause of black lung and silicosis by forcing airborne dust particles to drop out of suspension. It is 12 times more effective at dust capture than water alone, is safe for workers, and does not negatively impact ore properties or drill & blast activities
GRT: DC Binder
GRT: DC Binder prevents dust generation from the hazardous piles of drill cuttings produced by drill & blast activities. These piles contain very fine, respirable dusts that lead to lung disease such as silicosis and coal workers pneumoconiosis.
GRT: Soil-Loc
GRT Soil-Loc is a cost effective, broad-scale wind erosion technology designed to protect sensitive exposed surfaces. High seasonal winds or storm events can remove as much as 50-100mm of materials from exposed surfaces causing land degradation and transportation of unwanted dust and contaminants.
GRT: Rubble-Loc
GRT Rubble-Loc is a cost-effective dust and wind erosion control technology designed to for use on dynamic sites such as demolition sites, material stockpiles and natural disaster sites – both emergency and recovery/reconstruction phase.
GRT: Ore-Loc
GRT Ore-Loc is a robust, liquid polymer that provides an exceptional surface coating/crusting solution on all ore and material surface types. Designed specifically for the tough conditions of the resources sector, GRT Ore-Loc can be applied directly to raw materials using existing or specially designed spray-bar systems or simply by conventional water cart.
GRT: ACTIVATE
Cutting edge dust suppression technology that makes water work better, harder, and more efficiently. Injected through existing spray systems, trucks or stabilizers, key applications are for quarrying crushers and conveyors and for road construction.
Verifiable ROI: Stop Water Waste and Reduce OpEx by Up To 40%
Our Engineered Solutions Eliminate the Risks Associated with Overwatering and Unsafe Chemicals.
Our MSHA-compliant solutions deliver exceptional fugitive dust control and road durability. Independent analysis has shown that by switching to our synthetic fluid and polymer technologies, clients achieve a minimum of 95% dust reduction and realize an independently verified 40% cost saving compared to conventional watering. We provide total site-wide coverage for haulage, industrial, and hardstand areas.
Total Site Safety: From Pit to Port Dust Mitigation
Our MSHA-Compliant Products Offer a Cost-Effective Solution for Extreme Climatic and Traffic Conditions.
Our products offer the necessary toughness and flexibility for application across a diverse spectrum of industries, eliminating the cause of respiratory illness and ensuring site safety. Beyond maintenance efficiencies, our solutions deliver long-term savings from reduced windborne material loss. As a non-toxic product with a low carbon footprint, we enhance environmental protection by stopping the migration of fugitive dust.
TOTAL DUST MITIGATION STRATEGY FROM PIT TO PORT
FAQs
Dust suppression is the corrective best practice of dealing with fugitive dust particles that have been dislodged from their source. It limits the extent to which dust particles travel in the air.
A dust suppression unit is a Sustainable Mining Automated Reporting Technology (SMART) dosing unit which is a key hardware component that captures and uses powerful real-time data to improve water cart fleet management while cost-effectively eliminating dust.
Dust suppressants use different mechanisms: our water-activating fluids (like GRT: 12X) super-activate water to instantly capture fine, hydrophobic dust, while our polymer solutions bind and stabilize granular materials on unsealed roads for long-term control.
Dust suppression is important for water conservation through reduction of water truck movements, increased production efficiency, improved visibility during operations, reduced operator downtime, compliance to dust legislation and improved safety and health of workers and communities within the vicinity of mining operations.
Dust control in mines varies by application. The most effective methods use water-activating fluids for hazardous dust at the source and long chain polymers to bind and stabilize high-traffic haul roads and low-volume access roads for long-term safety.
The biggest health risk of mining is contracting occupational lung disease. Exposure to respirable crystalline silica and coal dust can result in diseases such as silicosis and black lung. Our solutions are engineered to eliminate these hazardous dust particles from the breathing zone.
Dust forms in pit to port activities. At the pit it is dislodged from activities such as blasting and drilling. On the way to the port, it is generated from hauling and material handling activities. At the port dust forms during loading and unloading activities and stockpiling.
Miners breathe underground via mine ventilation systems which supply sufficient fresh air and expel contaminated air. The ventilation system dilutes and removes poisonous gases, dusts, diesel particulate matter and regulates temperature.