Industrial operations and mining sites generate some of the most challenging water streams on earth.

These waters are often too saline, too chemically complex, or too contaminated for conventional filtration, media treatment, or reverse osmosis to manage reliably. Even when those systems work, they typically produce secondary waste streams, including toxic brine, spent membranes, and contaminated filter media that create new disposal liabilities.

Mining and metallurgical process water

Mining and metallurgy generate complex water streams containing high TDS, suspended solids, acidity/alkalinity swings, and dissolved metals. Aqua Fission can recover water from process streams, tailings water, and mine-impacted groundwater while retaining dissolved metals and salts in the residual output. This supports water reuse at site, reduces make-up water needs, and helps address discharge constraints.

Aqua Fission was designed specifically for this reality: converting heavily contaminated water into clean, usable water while isolating contaminants in a controlled residual output, without continuous wastewater discharge.

Aqua Fission is far superior to filtration or reverse osmosis:

Aqua Fission uses deep-vacuum, low-temperature thermodynamic distillation. Instead of trying to push contaminated water through membranes or chemical media, the system separates water from contaminants under controlled vacuum conditions. Dissolved salts, metals, organics, microplastics, PFAS, and other non-volatile contaminants do not evaporate with the water and are retained in the residual concentrate.

This approach is well suited to industrial and mining environments because it:

• handles complex and variable feedwater without membranes and fouling
• avoids continuous brine discharge and reduces environmental liability
• captures contaminants in a controlled residual stream suitable for compliant handling
• scales modularly from pilots to full production by adding process lines