NWT Diamonds Project Description Report (BHP Billiton, January 1994)
BHP Minerals Canada Ltd. submitted a comprehensive project description report for the proposed NWT Diamonds Project, a large-scale diamond mining operation located 300 km northeast of Yellowknife in the Coppermine River basin. The report details mining plans for three kimberlite pipes (Koala, Fox, and Leslie), processing methods, infrastructure development, and environmental management strategies including tailings storage in Long Lake and mitigation measures for impacts on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
- Date
- 1994
- Document type
- regulatory-filing
- Parties
- BHP Minerals Canada Ltd., Regional Environmental Review Committee, Dia Met Minerals, Charles E. Fipke, Stewart L. Blusson, Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited, Echo Bay Mines Ltd., Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, NWT Water Board, Environment Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Transport Canada
- Locations
- Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Coppermine River basin, Lac de Gras, Koala Lake, Fox 1 Lake, Leslie Lake, Long Lake, Panda Lake, Kodiak Lake, Koala watershed, Lupin Mine, Arctic Circle, Slave province, Archean Canadian Shield
- Parameters
- diamond mining, kimberlite pipes, open pit mining, underground mining, ore processing, dense media separation, diamond recovery, tailings disposal, water quality, aquatic habitat, fish species, caribou, grizzly bears, wolves, permafrost, waste rock, acid generation, environmental management, closure and reclamation
- Pages
- 213
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