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Phoenix Tailings is a provider of metal refining services to extract value from mining and refining waste. The company's services include taking mining and refining waste and treating it as a new ore that can be used by various industries for sustainability—creating primary metals and eliminating hazardous environmental waste. The company provides services for treating the tailings and primary metals for industries such as electronics, automobiles, and aerospace.
Phoenix Tailings was founded in 2019 by Anthony Balladon, Michelle Chao, Nicholas Myers, and Tomás Villalón and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts. The company was founded with the mission to revolutionize the mining industry by creating new sources of strategic materials, sustainably and economically.
Phoenix Tailings is developing what they call re-mining technology, which offers new reliable and sustainable primary metals sources. Phoenix Tailings treats the mining and refining waste that is discarded in large landfills, referred to as tailing ponds. Phoenix Tailings takes these tailing ponds and treats them as new ore, mining the tailings pond for new valuable primary metals.
Phoenix Tailings technologies
The company suggests that through their technology, they are able to improve efficiency, significantly reduce production costs, and pass the savings on to customers while eliminating hazardous environmental waste. These products are 100 percent sustainably produced, and Phoenix Tailings works to create domestic supply chains of critical materials. The metal products include the following:
- Alumina
- Aluminum
- Directly reduced iron
- Electrolytic iron
- Iron ore
- Iron concentrate
- Iron oxide pigments
- Iron oxide powder
- Iron nanopowder
- Iron powder
- Titania
- Titanium
- Silica
- Cerium
- Lanthanum
- Neodymium
- Samarium
- Scandium
