Natural Resources Canada Presentation to the BHP Diamond Mine Environmental Assessment Panel (Natural Resources Canada, February 1996)
Natural Resources Canada's presentation to the BHP Diamond Mine Environmental Assessment Panel on February 1, 1996, provides technical review and recommendations on mining design, tailings management, permafrost conditions, waste rock handling, and explosives use for the proposed NWT Diamonds Project. The submission emphasizes the critical importance of careful engineering, monitoring, and contingency planning to manage the unique challenges posed by permafrost terrain and frozen-core dam construction.
- Date
- Document type
- Presentation
- Parties
- Natural Resources Canada, BHP Diamonds Inc., BHP Diamond Mine Environmental Assessment Panel, Letha Maclachlan, Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology, Geological Survey of Canada, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Parks Canada, Government of the N.W.T.
- Locations
- Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Ekati Diamond Mine, Long Lake, Misery Lake, Panda Lake, Airstrip Esker, Misery pipe, Lupin gold mine, Polaris lead-zinc mine, Pond Inlet, Slave Province, Norman Wells, Saskatchewan, Key Lake, Rabbit Lake, West Kitikmeot/Slave Regional Study, Siberia, Canadian Shield
- Parameters
- tailings management, frozen-core dams, permafrost, ground ice, seepage, tailings impoundments, frost heaving, frost boils, water quality, suspended solids, acid drainage, alkaline drainage, nitrogen contamination, ammonia, nitrate, explosives, ANFO, waste rock management, esker quarrying, thermal modelling, seasonal thaw, active layer thickness, thermogeophysical profiling, geophysical sounding, earthquake loading, dam failure scenarios, consolidation and settlement, ice lenses, soil covers, reclamation, closure costs
- Pages
- 16
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