PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16069596
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["405", "128750"]

Abstract:
A process for reducing the volume of a collection of acid producing mine waste material is disclosed. The process comprises: contacting a mine waste material with water under oxidative conditions to produce a mineral containing acidic water and mineral and/or sulphide depleted mine waste material; separating the mineral containing acidic water and mineral and/or sulphide depleted mine waste material; treating the mineral containing acidic water to remove one or more minerals therefrom and provide treated water; and further contacting the mine waste material and/or the mineral and/or sulphide depleted mine waste material with the treated water and carrying out the steps one or more times until a total volume of the mineral and/or sulphide depleted mine waste material is less than a total volume of the starting acid producing mine waste material. Also disclosed is a process for converting acid producing mine waste material to a more environmentally acceptable substantially non-acid producing mine waste material.

Claim (Index 7):
A process for converting acid producing mine waste material to a more environmentally acceptable substantially non-acid producing mine waste material, the process comprising:\n a) contacting the mine waste material with water under oxidative conditions to produce a mineral containing acidic water and mineral and/or sulphide depleted mine waste material; b) separating the mineral containing acidic water and mineral and/or sulphide depleted mine waste material; c) treating the mineral containing acidic water to remove one or more minerals therefrom and provide treated water; and d) further contacting the mine waste material and/or the mineral and/or sulphide depleted mine waste material with the treated water and carrying out steps b) and c) one or more times until the mine waste material is converted to environmentally acceptable substantially non-acid producing mine waste material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.6129
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14071252', '15069877', '10971331', '11146250', '12666726']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7321921315843639
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5179079925427931
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7107637176802069
- Mean Citation Score: 261.18512200000004
- Max Citation Score: 306.4544
- Similarity Product: 237.45831403999333

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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