Use of Mining Tailings or Their Sedimentation and Flotation Fractions in a Mixture with Soil to Produce Structural Ceramics

The ceramic materials industry has vast potential for use of waste from industrial processes, such as iron mining tailings. aim this study was to test technological tailings samples the dam rupture Samarco S.A. Company in 2015 produce structural ceramics. Sedimentation and flotation processes were used improve their characteristics, analyzing chemical mineralogical composition granulometry. We produced 48 with a mixture soil residues proportions 10, 20, 30 wt%, sintering at 950 °C. results showed that co-processing can be considered viable improving certain aspects some properties. maximum amount residue wt% any fractions used, above concentration specimens lose important characteristics.