Operating Environmental Management Plan, Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton, December 1998)
BHP's Operating Environmental Management Plan for the Ekati Diamond Mine outlines comprehensive environmental management strategies and monitoring programs for the operational phase of the mine in the Northwest Territories, covering mining operations, mineral processing, waste management, wildlife protection, air quality, and aquatic life management across an anticipated 25-year operational period.
- Date
- Document type
- Report
- Parties
- BHP Diamonds Inc., Dia Met Minerals, Stewart Blusson, Charles Fipke, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs (DIAND), Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Environment Canada (EC), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development (RWED), Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT), Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency, Northwest Territories Water Board, Echo Bay Mines Ltd.
- Locations
- Ekati Diamond Mine, Lac de Gras, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Panda Lake, Koala Lake, Misery Lake, Fox Lake, Sable Lake, Long Lake Containment Area, Kodiak Lake, Grizzly Lake, Buster Lake, King Pond, Lac du Sauvage, Misery North, Misery South, Koala watershed, Tibbitt Lake, Lupin Mine, Pigeon, Beartooth, Leslie, Koala North
- Parameters
- air quality management, emissions, fugitive dust, fuels and lubricants, bulk explosives, process plant consumables, ferrosilicon, flocculants and coagulants, hydrofluoric acid, caustic soda, caribou, grizzly bear, furbearers, birds, archaeological sites, water quality, aquatic life, recreational fishing, petroleum products, waste batteries, laboratory wastes, domestic wastes, sewage treatment, permafrost, revegetation, reclamation, closure costs, waste rock dumps, processed kimberlite disposal, water diversion, lake drainage, mineral processing, traffic management, winter road, environmental monitoring
- Pages
- 152
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