Mine Water Management 2017

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 55 : Mine Water Management Tom Sharp , Principal Consultant Mining operations frequently encounter saline groundwater below permafrost on the Canadian Shield. Saline groundwater on the shield is primarily a calcium chloride brine. Management options need to meet compliance limits for total...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 55 : Mine Water Management Ruth Warrender , Senior Consultant (Geochemistry) Amy Prestia , Principal Consultant (Geoenvironmental) Predicting pit lake chemistry after closure is integral for demonstrating compliance during the Environmental Impact Assessment and mine permitting process. Water quality predictions rely on...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 55 : Mine Water Management Michael Palmer , Consultant Hydrogeologist Groundwater flow in crystalline rock environments with poorly developed or unsaturated saprolite is dominated by fracture flow, whether this be within the upper weathered/fractured zone or deeper in the bedrock where structural...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 55 : Mine Water Management Francis Smith , Consultant (Hydrology) A robust hydrological assessment can be a challenging task in regions where a lack of data, of a sufficient quality, is available to fully validate both hydrological assessments. This level of uncertainty...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 55 : Mine Water Management James Bellin , Principal Consultant (Hydrogeology) When it comes to dewatering and depressurisation at operational mine sites, getting the technical understanding right is only half the story. The other key to success is in maintaining and operating...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 55 : Mine Water Management Juanita Martin , Principal Consultant (Mine Waste) Water management at sites generating excess impacted water can result in high costs and risks if the development concept is advanced without consideration of certain key aspects. SRK developed a...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 55 : Mine Water Management Michael Royle , Principal Consultant Gregory Fagerlund , Consultant Integrating groundwater pressures into slope stability modelling is an evolving process in mine design. The goal is to carefully match the slope modelling requirements with a somewhat conservative...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 55 : Mine Water Management Houcyne El Idrysy , Principal Consultant (Hydrogeology) Lenar Sultanov , Hydrogeologist Mine project Feasibility Studies (FS) usually require the involvement of various consultancies and process design companies where cooperation between the involved parties is critical to the...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 55 : Mine Water Management Sheila Imrie , Principal Scientist Simon Lorentz , Principal Hydrologist Palabora Copper (PC) operated an open pit to recover copper ore (and secondary metals) from 1964 until 2002, and has since mined the ore by underground block...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 55 : Mine Water Management David Tait , Senior Consultant (Geochemistry) Iozsef Miskolczi , Senior Consultant ( Geoenvironmental) Heap leach pads are continuously irrigated with raffinate solution during their operational life; typically cyanide solution for gold ore, and sulfuric acid for base...

Download this issue A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 55 : Mine Water Management Sheila Imrie, Principal Hydrogeologist simrie@srk.co.za The proposed Elandsfontein phosphate open pit mine is located on the south-western coast of South Africa, 8km inland from the environmentally sensitive Langebaan Lagoon, and bordering the West Coast National...