In 2016, our Process Water Reuse program achieved a new record level of 94% reuse of effluent from wet beneficiation plants which is used to top up the level of the dredging complex’s operational lake – reuse has led to a 12% reduction in the volume of “new” water for the mine’s supplies piped from the abstraction source on the Guajú river.
In 2016, a Tronox mine in the Paraíba state reaped the benefits from the installation of a sectorized measuring system for potable water consumption as well as its campaigns educating people to use water responsibly. As a result, consumption fell more than 40% from its historical average