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Cyprus can profit from past mining activity
November 24, 2022
Cypriot mining company Venus Minerals board member and economic geologist Demetrios Constantinides earlier this week said that Cyprus can use modern tools to recover critical minerals from its mine tailings.
In mining, tailings refer to the materials left over after concluding the process of separating the valuable portion from the uneconomic portion of a mineral ore.
“New technology can enable economic recovery of important metals from mining waste created decades ago, both improving resource efficiency and contributing to CO2 reduction and also facilitating the rehabilitation of abandoned mine sites across the island,” Constantinides said.