NWT Diamonds Project Description Report (BHP Billiton, December 1994)
BHP Diamonds Inc.'s project description report for the proposed NWT Diamonds project outlines plans to develop Canada's first diamond mine in the Lac de Gras area, approximately 300 km northeast of Yellowknife. The report details the mining of five kimberlite pipes (Panda, Misery, Koala, Fox, and Leslie) through open pit and underground mining methods, with processing operations, infrastructure, environmental baseline conditions, and anticipated impacts on aquatic, terrestrial, and socioeconomic environments.
- Date
- 1994-12-01
- Document type
- regulatory-filing
- Parties
- BHP Diamonds Inc., Blackwater Group, Dia Met Minerals Limited, Charles E. Fipke, Stewart L. Blusson, Echo Bay Mines Ltd., Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Minister of Environment, NWT Regional Environmental Review Committee
- Locations
- Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Lac de Gras, Coppermine River basin, Panda Lake, Misery Lake, Koala Lake, Fox Lake, Leslie Lake, Long Lake, Grizzly Lake, Snare Lake, Lupin Mine, Koala watershed, Arctic Circle, Slave province, Archean Shield, Kalahari Craton
- Parameters
- diamond content and quality, kimberlite pipes, open pit mining, underground mining, water quality, aquatic habitat, fish populations, lake trout, Arctic grayling, round whitefish, tailings disposal, process plant operations, Dense Media Separation, X-ray sorting, waste rock management, permafrost, vegetation, wildlife, caribou, grizzly bears, wolves, air quality, dust emissions, fuel storage, waste management, closure and reclamation, socioeconomic impacts, employment
- Pages
- 245
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