Environmental Agreement Annual Report 1997, Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton, April 1998)
BHP Diamonds Inc.'s 1997 Annual Report for the Ekati Diamond Mine documents construction progress, operational activities, and environmental compliance monitoring required under the Environmental Agreement and Water Licence N7L2-1616. The report covers facility construction, mine operations including Panda Pit development, water and sewage management, aquatic and wildlife monitoring programs, and fisheries mitigation studies for Canada's first diamond mine in the Northwest Territories.
- Date
- 1998-04-30
- Document type
- report
- Parties
- BHP Diamonds Inc., Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd., BHP Minerals, Dia Met Minerals Limited, Charles Fipke, Stewart Blusson, Government of the Northwest Territories, Canada, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency, Northwest Territories Water Board, Simons Mining Group, Taiga Environmental Laboratories, Rescan
- Locations
- Ekati Diamond Mine, Lac de Gras, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Panda Lake, Koala Lake, Fox Pit, Misery Lake, Sable Lake, Kodiak Lake, Long Lake, Grizzly Lake, Little Lake, Vulture Lake, Moose Lake, Nema Lake, Slipper Lake, Leslie Lake, Airstrip Lake, Koala Watershed, Lac de Gras, Ursula Lake, Old Camp, Misery Camp, Panda Pit, Koala Pit, Canadian Shield
- Parameters
- water quality, water licence compliance, freshwater use, dewatering activities, lake levels, process water use, processed kimberlite containment, sedimentation ponds, minewater discharges, sewage treatment, surveillance network program, aquatic effects monitoring, sediment quality, limnological properties, primary producers, secondary producers, fish communities, water quality parameters, total ammonia, total aluminum, total arsenic, total copper, total nickel, total suspended solids, pH, turbidity, biological oxygen demand, oil and grease, wildlife monitoring, caribou, carnivores, birds, vegetation, meteorological monitoring, hydrology, air quality, fisheries studies, reclamation research, traditional knowledge studies, archaeological investigations, waste rock management, acid rock drainage, geochemical characterization
- Pages
- 271
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