Mining Giant Vale Recycles Tailings with Pure Electric Dredgers

Brazil's Vale recently announced that the company has begun commissioning the Gelado project in the Carajas region of the state of Para, Brazil, which will produce high-quality pellets by recycling tailings. The initial annual production capacity of the project is 5 million mt, and the total investment is 485 million US dollars. The 100% electric dredgers used to extract these tailings that have been stored for 37 years, Vale claims to use zero-carbon emission equipment to make the tailings sustainable.