Mining waste containing large amounts of fines are constantly disposed of in dams. The recovery of water contained in these wastes depends, among other factors, the removal of residuals reagents and fine particulate material, which due to their size and surface charge characteristics require of sedimentation times impractical industrially. Suspended particles with an average diameter of less than 2 micrometre, can not be removed by simple sedimentation by reason of their surface charges, remain in mutual repulsion, promoting an electrostatic stability of the pulp. However, the dispersion state of the particles is directly related to the electrostatic surface potential, and steps necessary to destabilize charges and aggregation, through coagulation and flocculation. Polyacrylamides are the most commonly used commercial polymers at the mineral industry; however, the demand for flocculants of lower cost and environmentally friendly, such as natural polymers have incipient use as chitosan and humic acid, become attractive for application in mineral slurries, for this case study will be evaluated the tailings of Ni and the red mud. pH is a very influenceable variable in the process but by an analysis of the zeta potential were measured of resulting surface charges and determined of pH for each of the slurries. The quality of the flakes have formed strong dependence on operating conditions of formation as a kind of reagents and their combinations, but by using the experimental design were studied variables such as of solids concentration, chitosan, humic acid, stirring speed and stirring time. With the obtained mathematical models, were the optimizations conducted of the process parameters. In tests of flocculation, it had turbidity as response variable of the supernatant and the results were adjusted taking into account the environmental standards for water reuse. To Ni in a pH next to 7, there was obtained a quadratic model, given the conditions optimized experimentally gave a turbidity response of 32 NTU. For the case of red mud was obtained two models at pH 12 was obtained as a linear model given experimentally gave a turbidity response of 33 NTU and pH 8 was obtained a quadratic model, given experimentally has a turbidity response of 31 NTU, which show that it is possible to reduce overflow the turbidity from 500 NTU to less than 50 NTU.