One mine. Many brines. One zero-waste answer.
RO reject, AMD concentrate, evaporation pond feed, pit dewatering, process bleed — a single mine makes a dozen messy brine streams, each managed separately at 5,000 to 50,000 mg/L TDS. Desalus funds, builds, owns and operates one zero-liquid-discharge service that consolidates all of them — you simply buy back clean water at an attractive rate per thousand gallons, with zero brine and zero waste left behind.
One mine doesn't make one brine. It makes a dozen — each its own headache.
RO reject from your process plant. AMD concentrate seeping from old workings. Pond feed you evaporate by the hectare. Water pumped from pit dewatering. The process bleed nobody wants to claim. Today each gets its own pipe, pond, permit and contractor — and every one of them is a cost with no return.
- Fragmented handling multiplies cost — separate ponds, liners, haul contracts and monitoring for each stream means you pay the disposal bill many times over.
- AMD and reject keep getting worse — acidic, scaling, high-TDS streams are the hardest to manage and the most likely to trigger a violation.
- Recovery collapses inland as TDS climbs toward 50,000 mg/L, so the most concentrated streams are exactly the ones you simply throw away.
More streams, more disposal cost — less value kept
The more streams you manage in isolation, the higher the disposal bill and the more value walks off site. Desalus collapses the curve into one.
The win isn't treating each brine better. It's not having brine at all.
Desalus is a full water-treatment service engineered for inland mines — pulling RO reject, AMD concentrate, pond feed, pit dewatering and process bleed into one zero-waste flow — Desalus funds, builds and runs it, and you buy back clean water with nothing left to discard.
Every stream, one pipe
RO reject, AMD, pond feed, dewatering and bleed are consolidated into a single treatment service — one process instead of a dozen disposal contracts.
Lower water cost, zero capital
No capital outlay and no operating burden across any stream. Desalus funds, builds and runs everything — you pay only for clean water delivered, at an attractive rate per thousand gallons that beats your current all-in cost.
One permit story, not many
No brine means no brine permits to defend, stream by stream. A unified zero-liquid-discharge result regulators and communities welcome.
Handles the hard streams
Built for the inland 5k–50k mg/L band where acidic AMD and high-TDS reject break conventional RO and recovery normally collapses.
Community & food security
Recovered water stays on the lease and locally-made fertilizer strengthens regional agriculture for generations around the mine.
Service, not just steel
Desalus delivers consolidation as a service — engineered, operated and optimized around your specific mix of streams and volumes.
Designed for the streams that break conventional RO
From mildly brackish dewatering to near-saturation AMD and process brine, Desalus is built for 5,000–50,000 mg/L total dissolved solids — covering the full spread of streams a single mine produces.
Your mine's streams land all across this band — and Desalus consolidates every one of them in the same service.
Many brine streams, three ways to handle them
The same mix of mine streams — but only one approach unifies them with nothing left behind.
| Outcome | Desalus | Evaporation ponds | Conventional RO |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stream handling | All streams unified | One pond per stream | Separate trains, still reject |
| Water recovery | 99%+ | Low — lost to air | Stalls on AMD & high TDS |
| Brine / reject stream | None | Permanent ponds | Yes — every train |
| Capital you outlay | None — Desalus owns & operates | You fund & build | You fund & build |
| What you pay for | Clean water, per 1,000 gal | Disposal, per stream, forever | Power + disposal |
| Permitting burden | One ZLD story | Per-pond, growing | Per-stream |
| Your all-in water cost | Lowest & predictable | Highest | High |
From a tangle of streams to clean water in four steps.
It starts with your numbers. Send Desalus a full-panel water quality and volume report for each stream, and you'll see exactly how they consolidate into one zero-waste solution.
Start with your water reportMap every stream
Send full-panel data for your RO reject, AMD, pond feed, dewatering and bleed through the Desalus contact form. The fuller the picture, the sharper the model.
Get a consolidated model
Desalus quantifies combined recovery, your clean-water rate per thousand gallons, and the capital and per-stream disposal costs you avoid across every stream.
Deploy the unified service
KNeW Process, Zix-Zak ion exchange and No-Briner systems are configured to take all your streams into one flow.
Buy back clean water, waste-free
You purchase clean water at your agreed rate per thousand gallons; brine — from any stream — simply never exists, and the recovered salts become fertilizer Desalus markets, which is how your water price stays low.
Raise profit. Eliminate waste. Flourish community.
The award-winning systems behind the Desalus service take the messiest mix of mine streams and return them as reliable, affordable clean water — with nothing left to waste.
What mine water teams ask first
Can one service really handle all my different brine streams?
Yes — that's the point. RO reject, AMD concentrate, evaporation pond feed, pit dewatering and process bleed are all inland brackish streams in the 5,000–50,000 mg/L TDS range. Desalus consolidates them into a single zero-liquid-discharge service, so instead of managing each one separately you get one clean outcome: clean water and no brine.
How does the Desalus model work — what do I actually pay?
Desalus capitalizes, builds, owns, operates and maintains the consolidated facility. You don't buy equipment or run anything stream by stream — you simply purchase the clean water Desalus produces, at an attractive rate per thousand gallons. Because Desalus recovers and sells the resulting farm-grade fertilizer, we can price your water below per-stream treat-and-dispose alternatives while leaving zero waste. The fertilizer revenue is Desalus'; your benefit is cheaper water and no per-stream liability.
What about acid mine drainage and other difficult streams?
Difficult, acidic and high-TDS streams are exactly where Desalus earns its keep. The KNeW Process, Zix-Zak ion exchange and No-Briner systems are engineered for the hardest inland water — recovering over 99% as clean water and the dissolved solids as farm-grade fertilizer, with no reject to dispose of.
Is this seawater desalination?
No. Desalus is purpose-built for inland brackish water and brine — mines with no ocean to discharge to. Seawater plants assume a brine outfall; your site doesn't have that luxury, which is precisely why consolidating every stream into a zero-waste solution matters.
What do I need to get started?
A full-panel water quality analysis and volumes for each stream you want to consolidate. Submit them through the contact form on desalus.com and the Desalus team will return a site-specific, multi-stream model of recovery, your clean-water rate per thousand gallons, and the capital and disposal costs you avoid.
See every brine stream turn into one clean outcome.
Send Desalus a full-panel water quality and volume report for the streams you manage and get site-specific insight into the clean water — and the savings — waiting once they're unified.
No obligation. The report drives a consolidated, site-specific model of recovery, your water rate per thousand gallons, and the capital and disposal costs you avoid.
- Combined recovery across all your brine streams
- Your attractive clean-water rate per thousand gallons
- Avoided per-stream pond, haul, disposal and capital costs
- Zero capital outlay — Desalus funds, builds & operates it all