Environmental Agreement Annual Report 1998, Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton, April 1999)
This is the 1998 Environmental Agreement Annual Report for the Ekati Diamond Mine, submitted by BHP Diamonds Inc. on April 30, 1999. The report documents the mine's transition from construction to full operational phase in October 1998, including comprehensive environmental monitoring results, compliance status with Water Licence N7L2-1616, and detailed accounts of wildlife, aquatic, air quality, and operational environmental management activities throughout 1998.
- Date
- 1999-04-30
- Document type
- report
- Parties
- BHP Diamonds Inc., BHP, Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd., Dia Met Minerals Limited, Charles Fipke, Dr. Stewart Blusson, Government of the Northwest Territories, Canada, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency (IEMA), Aboriginal Peoples, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Environment Canada, University of Alberta, Enviro-Test Laboratories, Canadian Association for Environmental Analytical Laboratories (CAEAL), James D. Excell, W. Scott Williams
- Locations
- Ekati Diamond Mine, Lac de Gras, Slave Geological Province, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, Panda pit, Koala pit, Fox pit, Misery pit, Sable pit, Panda Lake, Koala Lake, Fox Lake, Misery Lake, Kodiak Lake, Long Lake, Leslie Lake, Grizzly Lake, Little Lake, Polar Lake, Moose Lake, Nema Lake, Slipper Lake, North Panda Lake, Airstrip Lake, Unnamed Lake, King Pond, Ursula Lake, Larry Lake, Lac du Sauvage, Grizzly Creek, Panda Diversion Channel, Koala watershed, BHP claim block, Snare Lake, Rae Lakes, Wha Ti, Edzo, Fort Rae, Dettah, Fort Providence, Lutselk'e, Great Slave Lake, Hay River, Exeter Lake, Echo Bay Highway, Old Camp, Misery Camp, Panda/Koala Waste Rock Storage Area, Duchess Lake
- Parameters
- water quality, freshwater use, dewatering activities, lake levels, process water use, processed kimberlite containment, sedimentation ponds, minewater discharges, sewage treatment, surveillance network program, aquatic effects monitoring, physical and water quality parameters, primary and secondary producers, sewage effects, wildlife effects monitoring, caribou, carnivores, birds, meteorological monitoring, hydrological monitoring, air quality monitoring, mass-balance emissions calculations, total suspended particulate sampling, snow surveys, vegetation surveys, tailings characterization, kimberlite toxicity, wastewater and tailings management, acid rock drainage, geochemical characterization, waste rock and ore storage management, waste rock seepage, reclamation, revegetation, lake sediment suitability, riparian habitat creation, esker vegetation, traditional knowledge, archaeological investigations, fish habitat, dissolved oxygen, ammonia, total suspended solids, pH, arsenic, ICP metals, oil and grease, ions, turbidity, alkalinity, conductivity, temperature, hardness, sulfate, chloride, nitrate, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, bioassay, faecal coliform, streptococci, biological oxygen demand, spill incidents, materials management, waste management, dust control, contaminated soils, hydrocarbon remediation, closure costs, mine footprint, ore production, diamond recovery, crushing and scrubbing, heavy media separation, X-ray sorting, kimberlite ore processing, frozen core dam, containment dikes, filter blanket, sediment curtains, rock berm, Arctic grayling, fish spawning, invertebrate colonization
- Pages
- 134
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