When legacy evaporation and trucking failed at this metal mine, EcoVAP succeeded

This remote mine beat their ZLD bottleneck with a floating Ecovap system — in just four months.

But before discovering Ecovap, they were cornered. Management needed to increase production, but their evaporation ponds were already maxed out, and strict Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) regulations meant they couldn’t just add more water to their system. With no extra land, limited electricity and zero local disposal options, growth had stagnated.

And then they found Ecovap.

Four months later, the results were impossible to deny. They were processing water 59 times faster than before. Transport costs dropped by 85 percent. Overall water handling costs had cut in half. And most notable of all: their evaporation rate actually outpaced the mine’s water production. Ponds that brimmed on overflow were so dry that the floating matrix came to rest on the pond’s exposed floor.

Ecovap wasn’t just an operational stopgap. It was an operational breakthrough.

By eliminating water disposal as its limiting factor, Ecovap helped this mine increase their production capabilities without expanding their land footprint or blowing their OpEx budget.

And they did it in less time than it takes to file a permit for another pond.