EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
MISSION STATEMENT
Life to Land Environmental Solutions, LLC is engaged in the reclamation of mine wastes. We reprocess slag, tailings and slurries and render them safe. The base materials are then be made into viable and marketable products.
Technological evolution in biological metallurgy has allowed the development of Life to Land Environmental Solutions, LLC which is private and proprietary. Life to Land Environmental Solutions, LLC completely extracts remaining toxins and metals from slag and tailings. As a result, the remaining material is cleaned of toxins, thus providing environmental benefits heretofore unheard of in ecological circles.
Life to Land Environmental Solutions, LLC results in the reclamation of the products listed below:
- Agricultural Fertilizer
- Road Aggregate
- Concrete Aggregate
- Non-ferrous Metals
- Ferrous Metals
Six sites will initially be purchased for the implementation of Life to Land Environmental Solutions, LLC; one in Africa, one in Central America, one in California, one in Arizona and one in Nevada and one in Utah. Each site possesses thousands of tons of slag and /or tailings which can processed and reclaimed. Each site has enough raw material that would take several lifetimes to complete due to the tremendous volume of mining refuse.
The use of metals mined over the centuries enabled society to become more complex and, in general more materially rewarding. However, the same process left a legacy of blighted landscapes, toxic sores and poisoned aquifers around the country and planet.
Up until the last several decades, practitioners engaged in mining practices with ignorance and/or denial of the damage caused to the environment. There are hundreds of sites in our country and thousands around the world where dangerous concentrations of waste, slurries, slag heaps and tailings have been abandoned, and left as toxic gifts to future generations.
Life to Land Environmental Solutions, LLC is a cost effective and efficient method to extract the maximum amount of toxins from slag heaps. Life to Land has decided to publicly focus its efforts to clean up the land and, in the process, produce and sell by-products such as concrete aggregate, road aggregate and agriculture fertilizer additives at a discount to third parties.
Technologies are already available which can, with nearly one hundred percent efficiency, extract contaminated materials. The difficulty is a matter of cost. Currently, the excessive cost to clean most serious metallic waste sites in this manner means that funds are not likely to be assembled during our generation for such a purpose, especially in today’s economic conditions.
Life to Land Environmental Solutions, LLC allows a cost-effective, highly mechanized system that produces vast quantities of the by-products heretofore available only in small amounts. In addition, the resulting refuse is cleaned of toxins and safe for the environment. Is this an alchemist’s claim? No. It is simply a result of many years of study and evolutionary advances in technology.
Our use of the metals mined over the centuries has enabled our societies to become more complex and in general more materially rewarding. However, the same process left a legacy of blighted landscapes, toxic sores and poisoned aquifers around the country and planet.
Up until the last several decades, practitioners engaged in mining practices with ignorance and/or denial of the damage caused to the environment. There are hundreds of sites in our country and thousands around the world where dangerous concentrations of waste, slurries, slag heaps and tailings have been abandoned, and left as toxic gifts to future generations.
These materials work their way into our water systems and food supply. With the passage of time, our water becomes contaminated through the leaching of chemicals into the local water tables. Acid rain falls on the large leached cyanide laced tailing piles exacerbating the problem.
It is only a short progression, both in process and time, to enter our food supply. The contaminated water is absorbed or swallowed by the plants and animals we depend on for our survival. There is no shortage of scientific evidence regarding the short and long term negative effects to the well being of humans, wildlife and the entire eco-system. The responsible parties have, for the most part, disappeared into history. Where responsibility can be traced to surviving institutions or individuals, the projected cost of clean-up often exceeds the financial capabilities of the accountable parties.
Technologies are available which can, with nearly one hundred percent efficiency, extract toxins from soil. Funds to clean most serious metallic waste sites in this manner are not likely to be assembled during our generation, especially in today’s economic conditions.
merely masks or covers the problem. Alternately, metallic materials can be rendered inert by various processes. Capping is merely a delaying process and does not permanently remove contaminated materials from the environment. Capping, often times forces the contaminates down and into aquifers. In some soils, metal salts can be washed away, but it is useful only where the waste wash can be captured effectively. Even the best wash is not always efficient as contaminants are likely to be left behind.
Life to Land Environmental Solutions, LLC
Life to Land Environmental Solutions, LLC accomplishes the trinity of mining remediation. It is:
1. Effective (as well as environmentally sound);
2. Cost effective; and,
3. Allows for the recovery of both the light and heavy metals trapped in the various sites in slurry, slag or tailing forms.
The core difference between Life to Land Environmental Solutions, LLC and most others is that it does not contain the unwanted and dangerous materials. It eliminates them completely at an economical cost. The patent provides a recovery method which minimizes the use of harmful chemicals and minimizes the potential for harmful materials escaping into the environment. It also transforms many harmful components of the source material into forms safer to handle.
The functions are determined by the host material. Each stage is separate and apart from each other. Each stage is processed by different and distinct electro-mechanical units. Life to Land Environmental Solutions, LLC machines are particularly advantageous for the economical removal of harmful matter.
Life to Land Environmental Solutions, LLC involves mechanical and (minimal) chemical manipulation of contaminated material which prepares it for refining in which metals are effectively separated. The output includes both inert organic and inorganic materials.
The safe, inert byproducts can be pre-sold into several markets including but not limited to the cement, gravel and aggregate industries and to the agricultural sector as material to mix in with soil to aid aeration and the retention of moisture.
Political, economic, social and impacts and the EPA
The GREEN clean-up of the earth is still in its infancy. Corporations at the forefront of this clean-up will reap extraordinary profits. Government incentives, both tax and funded, as well as public fervor are propelling corporations to seek new methods of clean-up to take advantage of the trend to end destruction of the earth’s resources. This will cause entire industries to find new sources of revenue to grow and profit in measures heretofore not seen.
The federal EPA has superfund sites which currently will take generations to clean up. While Life to Land Environmental Solutions, LLC is the first method to accelerate the clean-up process it too is in its infancy. It would take many generations to process the billions of tons of slag and tailings to make a dent in the toxins left from the mining industry.