BioClear 3K: A Smarter, Sustainable Solution for Thickeners and Tailings

Effective water treatment is essential to mine site performance and environmental compliance. However, many traditional coagulants and flocculants fall short in high-solids applications. That’s why Integrity Mining and Industrial (IMI) has developed a more effective and eco-friendly alternative: BioClear 3K.

Expanding Beyond Mineral Additives

While IMI is well-known for its mineral processing technologies, we also provide tailored solutions for the entire flotation and water treatment process. In fact, our latest innovation—BioClear 3K—is designed specifically for thickeners and tailings management, offering both performance and environmental benefits.

Why Traditional Polymers Struggle

Polymer flocculants and coagulants are commonly used to reduce repulsive forces through charge neutralization and bridging. However, many current technologies fail to deliver results in key areas, including:

• Settling time

• Turbidity of recovered water

• Dewaterability

• Solids content of sediments

Therefore, operations working with high-solids systems are often forced to overdose or combine multiple products—driving up cost and complexity.

BioClear 3K: Purpose-Built for High-Solids Systems

To solve these issues, IMI developed BioClear 3K—a specially formulated biopolymer coagulant that performs exceptionally well in demanding environments such as mine tailings and drilling waste streams.

Unlike many alternatives, BioClear 3K directly addresses the charge differences between fine particles, improving floc formation and settling behavior. Furthermore, it is non-toxic to aquatic life, with an LC50 of over 800 L/m³ and a low recommended dosage of just 0.5–1%.

Sustainable by Design

In addition to performance, sustainability is central to BioClear 3K. Its biobased chemistry supports lower environmental impact while maintaining industrial strength. As a result, operations can achieve compliance goals without sacrificing efficiency.

Reduce Your Flocculant Use and Improve Water Recovery

One of the key advantages of BioClear 3K is its ability to reduce the need for additional flocculants. This lowers chemical consumption while still improving:

• Water clarity

• Sediment compaction

• Overall thickener performance

Moreover, this can lead to faster return water cycles, reduced disposal volumes, and lower operating costs—without the tradeoffs common to conventional coagulants.

Let’s Put It to the Test

At IMI, we believe every site deserves a custom solution. Therefore, we offer in-house flotation and water treatment testing to evaluate how BioClear 3K performs on your specific ore and slurry.

📞 Call us today at 817-402-0444
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