Location Queensland
Client Queensland Rail
Product ViroFlow™
Queensland Rail is committed to ensuring that rail remains Australia’s most environmentally sound method of large-scale transportation. The lead-contaminated water produced from Queensland Rail’s railway bridge maintenance was being released into the surrounding environment, which posed a potential risk. To minimize their environmental impact and as part of their internal water conservation campaign, Queensland Rail […]
Location Gladestone
Client Gladestone Port Authority
Product ViroSoil™
Gladstone Port Authority in Queensland, Australia, was experiencing problems with sulphidic marine clays (acid sulphate soils) resulting from its past dredging and land reclamation operations. Due to a planned change in a railway siding and loop line approximately 30,000 cubic metres of this sulphidic marine sediment was excavated and stockpiled. This stockpiled material oxidized and became acidic, resulting in […]
Location Mt Carrington, Northern NSW
Client Mt Carrington Mines
Product ViroMine™
The Mt Carrington mine site in northern NSW, Australia, carries a legacy of more than 150 years of gold and silver mining (some copper, zinc and antimony were also recovered), but the last commercial operations stopped in 1989. Mineralogical recovery of gold and silver employed the carbon-in-pulp cyanide extraction method. After extraction of gold and […]
Location Mt Carrington, Northern NSW
Client Mt Carrington Mines
Product ViroMine™
“Following treatment using Virotec’s technology, the treated water was 100 times cleaner than drinking water”. Following the closure of Mt Carrington Gold and Silver mine in the early 1990’s, a legacy of over 100 years of mining was left in the form of a severely contaminated tailings dam. This 14 ha tailings dam had been […]
Location Burnie, TAS
Client Tasmanian Paper
Product ViroSoil™
Australian Paper is one Australia’s largest pulp and paper mills had ceased production. The company wanted to sell or re-use the site but the local and state regulators would not allow this to happen until all of the necessary demolition and remediation work was complete. After 40 years of continuous operation, the site was heavily contaminated […]
Location Hobart, TAS
Client Nyrstar
Product ViroFlow™
Virotec implemented the patented ViroFlow™ Technology to treat mercury contaminated filter cake waste at Nyrstar, Hobart Smelter. The waste being treated was generated primarily from Nyrstar’s mercury plant. The key objective was to immobilise the solid waste containing predominantly mercury and arsenic, but with also minor constituents of other heavy metals. The waste was to […]
Location Port Kembla, NSW
Client PKC
Product Regulated Waste Treatment,Transport and Disposal
Port Kembla Copper engaged with Virotec for the treatment, transport and Disposal of Heavy Metal Contaminated filter cake. Virotec provided a complete regulated waste treatment service for this project, the scope covered the following items: On site treatment by Virotec Treatment Team. Supply treatment reagents Treatment to landfill acceptance criteria. Transportation to landfill and EPA […]
Location Ashmore, Queensland
Client Omega Chemicals
Product ViroLock™
The key objective of this project was to clean a sludge tank containing heavy metal contaminated sludge. The sludge had then to be transported to the designated EPA licenced facility to be neutralised before final removal. Virotec carried out a single stage treatment, which was performed by Virotec operators. The proposed treatment involved the addition […]
