Total Mining Solutions for the Mining Industry
Mining is a 24/7 operation with no margin for inefficiency. Every haul truck, every conveyor belt, every blast must work seamlessly to keep production on schedule. But across mine sites, one challenge consistently undermines efficiency, safety, and compliance: dust.
Dust may look like a minor inconvenience, but uncontrolled emissions affect every part of a mine. They shorten road life, obscure visibility, threaten worker health, trigger regulatory violations, and erode community trust. With MSHA’s new crystalline silica rule taking effect in 2024, mines face even greater pressure to control respirable dust at the source.
EnviroTech Services offers Total Mining Solutions, a portfolio of dust suppression, stabilization, and pile sealing products tailored to every part of a mine site. From haul roads and tailings to crushers and stockpiles, our chemistries deliver effective, sustainable results that reduce costs while supporting Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) commitments.
Why Dust Control and Stabilization Matter in Mining
Dust control is not just about compliance. It is about protecting people, productivity, and the environment. Effective solutions protect worker health by minimizing exposure to respirable crystalline silica and other particulates. They improve safety by reducing dust clouds that impair visibility on roads and in processing areas. By locking fines in place, they extend road life and cut regrading and watering cycles, which lowers maintenance costs. Mines also conserve resources by reducing water use, fuel consumption, and truck traffic. Sustainable, low-chloride, and bio-based products strengthen ESG performance while keeping operators ahead of MSHA, EPA, and local air quality requirements.
Dust control and stabilization add measurable value by keeping mines safer, more efficient, and more sustainable.
Where Total Mining Solutions Deliver Value
Every mine has multiple dust-generating zones, each with unique challenges. EnviroTech’s tailored solutions cover the full spectrum, including haul and access roads, tailings storage facilities, stockpiles and ore piles, quarries and gravel pits, and processing circuits.
Haul & Access Roads: The Lifelines of Mining
Haul and Access Roads keep mines moving. Constant heavy truck traffic quickly erodes surfaces, creating dust clouds, washboarding, and potholes. Excess watering only accelerates wear while straining budgets.
EnviroTech delivers products designed specifically for these heavy-duty demands. DuraBlend-M is a polymer-enhanced magnesium chloride for high-traffic corridors that extends surface life and reduces washboarding. RoadSaver-M is a magnesium chloride-based suppressant with enhanced performance that cuts chloride use and truck passes while keeping fines in place. X-Hesion Pro and DustReady provide bio-polymer options for environmentally sensitive sites that support ESG goals while delivering reliable suppression.
The result is safer visibility, dust-free driving conditions, lower regrading and watering costs, longer road life under heavy loads, and proven compliance support with silica dust standards.
Tailings: Managing the Largest Dust Source
Tailings storage facilities present unique challenges with extremely fine particles, large, exposed surfaces, and constant wind. Uncontrolled tailings dust threatens worker safety, community relations, and compliance with PM10 and PM2.5 limits.
EnviroTech provides multiple tiers of control. Chloride solutions like RoadSaver and RoadSaver-C bind moisture to fines and offer proven, cost-effective performance. Enhanced chlorides such as DuraBlend-M and RoadSaver M combine polymers with chloride to extend control. For chloride-restricted areas, X-Hesion Pro offers a bio-based, ultra-low chloride option. Polymer and synthetic emulsions such as DuraSynth Emulsion form durable seals that resist wind and rain.
The result is stronger tailings surfaces, fewer dust clouds reaching workers and communities, reduced truck passes and operating costs, and stronger alignment with sustainability and ESG commitments.
Pile Sealants: Locking Dust at the Source
Ore and coal stockpiles shed fines quickly, creating fugitive dust and material loss. EnviroTech’s Pile Sealants provide flexible, long-lasting solutions. DuraSynth Emulsion coats particles with a tacky, water-resistant layer that works well on active piles. PileReady Coal Series is designed specifically for coal, forming a durable seal that prevents oxidation and dust lift-off. The Pile Ready Series uses polymers that cure into weather-resistant crusts, locking fines in place for long-term control.
These solutions reduce material loss, protect air quality for workers, provide longer-lasting stability, and deliver ESG-friendly benefits such as lower emissions and water use.
Quarries & Gravel Pits: Cleaner Operations, Safer Communities
Quarries and Gravel Pits face constant dust from blasting, crushing, and vehicle traffic. Without control, operators risk strained community relations, equipment wear, and compliance penalties.
EnviroTech offers proven chloride suppressants like RoadSaver and RoadSaver-C, as well as polymer-enhanced blends in the DuraBlend Series that extend application life. X-Hesion Pro provides a bio-based, ultra-low chloride alternative. DuraSynth Emulsion creates flexible, durable films, while water extenders improve the efficiency of water trucks in hot or windy conditions.
These products create safer pits with less dust exposure, cleaner air for workers and nearby communities, lower water use and emissions, and stronger roads with reduced fines loss.
Process Dust: Tackling Crushers, Screens, and Conveyors
Process Dust: Processing circuits generate concentrated dust exposure at crushers, screens, bins, transfer points, and conveyors. EnviroTech’s solutions are engineered for precision application through nozzles and foams. DustReady 47 provides immediate knockdown through surfactants. DustReady 3000 and 5000 are bio-polymer formulations that extend moisture retention. DuraSynth Emulsion delivers a water-resistant coating for high-airflow environments. The MineReady Series addresses specialized challenges such as sticky ores or foaming.
With these solutions, mines achieve reduced airborne dust at critical points, improved worker visibility and health protection, lower reapplication needs, reduced water use, and better compliance.
Year-Round Solutions: From Dry Summers to Winter Deicing
Mining is not seasonal. Dust does not disappear when the weather shifts. In winter, EnviroTech offers many products from our core deicing and anti-icing business for belt deicing and freeze conditioning, ensuring performance and safety (more to come on this soon).
By working with EnviroTech, mines can streamline procurement, reduce supplier complexity, and maximize the value of their product inventory across all four seasons.
Total Mining Solutions: Protecting People, Resources, and Communities
From haul roads to crushers, tailings to stockpiles, EnviroTech’s Total Mining Solutions deliver safer operations through reduced dust exposure, stronger roads and surfaces with longer lifespans, lower operating costs from reduced rework, fuel, and water use, better compliance with MSHA’s new crystalline silica rule, and strong ESG alignment with low-chloride, bio-based, and sustainable product options.
Dust is everywhere in mining, but it does not have to control your operation. EnviroTech’s Total Mining Solutions help mines achieve safer, cleaner, and more efficient operations year-round. Whether you need haul road stabilization, tailings dust control, pile sealants, or process suppression, we have the chemistry and expertise to deliver measurable results.
Ready to take control of dust across your entire site?
Contact EnviroTech today to speak with our mining solutions team and design a customized plan for your operation.
