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Defining Tailing Terms COVER STORY
Led by a Canton native, avant-garde tech startup Phoenix Tailings finds hidden value in reclaiming hazardous mining waste VETERAN VOICES
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Phoenix Tailings CEO Nick Myers leads the charge to transform mining waste into valuable metals
IF YOU’RE UNFAMILIAR with the term tailings, you’re not alone — until recently, I was as clueless as a metropolis klutz in a barnyard regarding the definition and application of the word. For the uninitiated, the term is a plural noun with a specific meaning — it refers to the toxic waste that is a byproduct of the mining industry. Misapplied and misunderstood by a linguistic or scientific klutz who is either deliberately ignorant or woefully oblivious, tailings can have catastrophic consequences. But when tailings are properly disposed, the hazardous issues can be mitigated. Yet what if tailings can be recycled and repurposed? What if caring and competent scientists can sidestep the too-often-evident cluelessness of the conventional experts and recognize the value inherent in this toxic waste? What if precious metals are hiding in tailing cesspools around the world? Canton native Nick Myers, CEO of innovative tech startup Phoenix Tailings, asserts this is no what-if proposition. See page 4 for this hopeful story — BWD
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CEO Sees Urgency of Zero-Waste Mission By Bruce Deckert Editor-in-Chief • Today Magazine
LET’S PLAY word association. But first, for the uninitiated, allow Today Magazine to introduce you to a startup tech company called Phoenix Tailings — led by CEO Nick Myers, a Canton native who was born and bred right here in the Farmington Valley. Now, let’s play — with online dictionaries as the association arbiters. Round 1 of our Word Association Game: • The Word — tailing • noun • Definition #1 — residue separated in the preparation of various products, such as ores and grain — usually used in plural • Merriam-Webster Dictionary • Definition #2 — the residue of something, especially ore — “tailings from the mine may contaminate local waterways” • Oxford Languages Dictionary via Google 4
• Definition #3 — waste left over after certain processes, such as from an orecrushing plant or in milling grain • Dictionary.com ————————————— Here is Round 2: • The Word — phoenix • noun • Definition — mythical bird in ancient stories that lives for 500 years, burns itself to death, and then is born again from its ashes, repeating the cycle every five centuries • compilation of online dictionaries ———————————————— And here is Round 3: • The Word — tail + tailing • verb • Definition #1 — to follow for purposes of surveillance • Merriam-Webster • Definition #2 — follow and observe closely, especially in secret • Oxford Languages via Google • Definition #3 — to follow in order to
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hinder escape of, or to observe — “to tail a suspect” • Dictionary.com • Thesaurus — bird-dog, chase, follow, hound, hunt, pursue, shadow, stalk, trace, track, trail ——————————————————————————— Naturally, CEO Myers is the best source — together with his fellow company founders — for the truest word association and best definition of the award-winning and accolade-garnering company known as Phoenix Tailings. What exactly is the significance of the company’s name? “Tailings are the technical term for the mining waste material we work with,” says Myers. “Phoenix is the legendary bird that is resurrected. Phoenix Tailings represents life being born from the ashes of the waste.” Speaking of word associations, do you tend to associate the verb tail with a
Phoenix Tailings Finds Value in Mining Waste
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LEFT + COVER — In their state-of-the-art lab today, Phoenix Tailings scientists extract valuable metals from toxic mining waste ABOVE — Hazardous red mud in a tailings pond in Germany BELOW — Phoenix Tailings founders (left-to-right) Nick Myers, Michelle Chao and Tomas Villalon run their very first tests in Villalon’s apartment in Cambridge, MA
—————————————————————————— Exclusive Interview with Phoenix Tailings CEO Nick Myers —————— PAGE 10 —————————————————————————— positive or negative connotation? Pursue, follow and chase — these associations can be seen as positive. Stalk, hound and hunt — these can be seen as negative. In the case of Phoenix Tailings, these so-called positive and negative connotations can be complementary rather than competing — and we can blend the above connotations and definitions and concepts in an alphabet soup amalgam that summarizes the goal of this innovative tech startup as follows: Phoenix Tailings is, indeed, tailing and chasing and hounding “the mission to leverage untapped value within mining and refining waste … [while] eliminating this harmful waste from the environment [and] sustainably creating valuable materials” — per the firm’s website. Further, the term alphabet soup is TODAY MAGAZINE – www.TodayPublishing.net – MARCH 2022 Courtesy Photos – Phoenix Tailings
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Phoenix Tailings founders Tomas Villalon and Michelle Chao conduct early tests in the backyard of Villalon’s Cambridge apartment
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doubly fitting here because the byproducts of the mining industry become a toxic soup that is discarded in large landfills called tailings ponds. One specific type of tailing is called red mud, a toxic remnant of the industrial process that refines bauxite (aka raw aluminum ore) into aluminum oxide (aka alumina). “Red mud is specifically bauxite residue, a byproduct of alumina production,” says Myers. “Tailings are the general term for all mining and metals production operations.” Sometimes red mud is stored as a soupy sludge, and sometimes the mud is dried, thus becoming red dust. Rather than being resigned to a world where hazardous red mud and red dust sit indefinitely while posing a threat to humans and the environment, the Phoenix Tailings team recycles the valuable ore in the tailings — “treating them as a new ore” — and extracts useful primary metals “in a holistic and sustainable manner,” per the website. The metals restored from the former waste ore are salvaged and then utilized as raw materials in the production of cellphones, automobiles, aviation components and more — in diverse industries such as aerospace, biotechnology, defense, medical technology and water treatment. Located in Woburn, MA — about 10 miles north of Boston — the company has 16 full-time employees along with five consultants and three interns, and is poised to grow like a well-fertilized well-watered garden. “We’re bringing together the right people, the right brilliant minds, the right passionate individuals to find a solution for one of the biggest challenges in the world,” Myers says in a Phoenix Tailings YouTube clip. Four young co-founders comprise the firm’s leadership team: COO Michelle Chao (26 years old), VP of partnerships Anthony Balladon (28), CTO Tomas Villalon Jr. (31) and CEO Myers (30). Myers is a 2014 graduate of Saint Michael’s College in Vermont (B.S. in physics) and a 2010 graduate of The Master’s School in West Simsbury. He has earned two master’s degrees: an MBA in marketing from Rochester Institute of Technology (2015) and an MBA in finance from Northeastern University (2017). He resides in Dorchester, MA — “technically,” he quips, because he has traveled on company business about 200 days in the past year. Established in 2019, Phoenix Tailings began as a dream in the backyard of Villalon’s apartment in Cambridge, MA. At this makeshift lab, the four founders built their first prototype for drawing out valuable metals from tailings residue. “It was a small chemical processing reactor — a metal box — that took bauxite residue from the tailings,” Myers explains, “creating iron and rare earths.” This up-and-coming tech company has received some impressive honors, including UConn’s annual Wolff New Venture Competition award in October 2019. The $20,000 prize represented “our first round of funding” and provided actual laboratory space, says Myers. “This moved us out of a backyard, and I still remember the feeling of this becoming something real.” Myers distinctly recalls the exhilarating rush of the honor. “The Wolff competition was the first opportunity for me to publicly present our dream and was one of the first validation points encouraging us to continue on our mission to bring about a zero-waste world,’’ he told the UConn Today news website. “Despite the incredible breadth of our dream, the near insurmountable tasks ahead of us, and all the challenges we face, the Wolff Competition gave us our first nudge of courage to never give up.”
COO Michelle Chao opens the first sample of red mud delivered to Phoenix Tailings — when it dries, red mud is also known as red dust
UConn Today described Phoenix Tailings as “a startup that could rid the earth of vast cesspools of toxic sludge.” Since then, investors and venture capital firms have clearly caught the Phoenix Tailings vision. The company has been funded with about $13 million to date, according to Myers — about $12 million in private funding and $1 million in government grants, including a Small Business Innovation Research award from the federal National Science Foundation. Further, Phoenix Tailings was chosen as one of 10 startups for the esteemed Techstars Boston 2020 cohort. On an individual level, Techstars and Barclays have selected Chao for their Female Founders First program — and Forbes has chosen Myers for its prestigious Next 1000 list that celebrates “entrepreneurial heroes” of the 21st century. While Myers appreciates the recognition, he underscores that the Phoenix Tailings journey has just begun. “I don’t care much for awards — we have a lot to accomplish, and I’m not content,” he says. “The awards are generally just fleeting publicity, which can be cool” — but he affirms that these honors must be leveraged in order to achieve Phoenix Tailings’ endgame mission. If anyone remains unclear about the words that are best associated with Phoenix Tailings, Myers hopes the answers become evident as the company pursues its mission in the days ahead. +
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Phoenix Tailings: Turning Mining Waste into Valuable Metals Special to Today Magazine
CEO Nick Myers answered this Q&A on behalf of Phoenix Tailings —————————————————————— Manager + Other Principals: Nick Myers — 30 CEO & Co-Founder Canton, Connecticut Anthony Balladon — 28 VP of Partnerships & Co-Founder Durban, South Africa Michelle Chao — 26 COO & Co-Founder Houston, Texas Tomas Villalon Jr. • PhD — 31 CTO & Co-Founder San Antonio, Texas • with age + company role + hometown
—————————————————————— PHOENIX TAILINGS Address 8B Henshaw Street • Woburn, MA Editor’s Note — facility located 10 miles north of Boston Email info@phoenixtailings.com Website www.phoenixtailings.com Social Media www.linkedin.com/company/ phoenixtailings Year Established — 2019 —————————————————————— and this is the best way I can make an impact to help people. Most enjoyable aspect of your work?
Number of employees and consultants:
Getting to work alongside some of the smartest and most passionate people in the world.
16 full-time employees, 3 interns and 5 consultants — so 24 folks on the team
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Hiring and identifying the best people. Nobody who ever did anything great did it alone, and it’s the people around you who make you great. This is a saying that we truly embrace at Phoenix, and we take great effort to find the best possible people. Honestly, the way we overcome it is by setting this as an absolutely critical objective that the entire company works on.
Clean Mining and Metals Production Company mission: To Create A Zero-Waste World Significance of the name Phoenix Tailings? Tailings are the technical term for the mining waste material we work with. Phoenix is the legendary bird that is resurrected. Phoenix Tailings represents life being born from the ashes of the waste. Why did you choose this profession? I want to change the world for the better,
Most satisfying accomplishment? Getting our first round of funding and laboratory space. This moved us out of a backyard, and I still remember the feeling of this becoming something real.
—————————————————————————— PAGE 4 — Cover Story: Phoenix Tailings —————————————————————————— Goals for the next five years? Build an operational facility that demonstrates to the world that mining waste does not truly have to be waste. What sets your business apart? The people. We bring in the best people in the world to focus on a problem, and give them the opportunity to make a difference. What do you appreciate most about the New England business climate? The unparalleled ecosystem for talent. With MIT, Northeastern, Harvard, UConn and so many top schools in the area, the people here are passionate and smart! What constructive change would you like to see in the New England business climate? I’d like to see more support in navigating the government and local ecosystems. There is a lot of support available, but honestly, it’s just hard to find where everything is. The business leader today who inspires you most? Robert Friedland — founder, Ivanhoe Mines and Ivanhoe Capital • mining guru Anecdote that provides a window into your company’s ethos: We were not started like most deep technology companies, out of a fully funded lab. … Phoenix Tailings was started when I met Tomas Villalon at a Bible study about four years ago. We started talking about all the major challenges in
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