While attending Shanghai Metals Market’s (SMM’s) International Critical Minerals Conference (ICMC) we got talking with a representative from Nuoer – China’s largest producer of water and tailings management chemicals – about some of the chemicals required for mines to operate whilst handling operational barriers like hazardous mine tailings. Nuoer produces flocculants and powders for use within the papermaking, wastewater management, mineral processing, and oil processing industries. Within the mineral processing industry this is primarily used for purifying mine tailings into more disposable forms. The company primarily produces a wide variety of chemicals under the branch of acrylamides, these are tailored towards the different use-cases mentioned above, and further specialized where necessary like use with tailings from different ore types. Acrylamides…