Presentation to the Environmental Assessment Panel on BHP Diamonds Inc.'s NWT Diamonds Project (Natural Resources Canada, February 1996)
Natural Resources Canada submits technical comments on BHP Diamonds Inc.'s NWT Diamonds Project (Ekati) for an environmental assessment panel, addressing tailings management, permafrost and ground ice issues, waste rock management, explosives handling, and construction monitoring requirements. The submission provides recommendations for frozen-core dam design, tailings deposition, permafrost characterization, and esker extraction to address technical challenges posed by the project's permafrost terrain.
- Date
- Document type
- Presentation
- Parties
- Natural Resources Canada, BHP Diamonds Inc., Environmental Assessment Panel, Letha Maclachlan, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Geological Survey of Canada, Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology
- Locations
- Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Ekati Diamond Mine, Long Lake, Misery Lake, Panda Lake, Airstrip Esker, Misery pipe, Lupin mine, Polaris lead-zinc mine, Slave Province, Canadian Shield, Siberia, Saskatchewan, Norman Wells
- Parameters
- tailings management, permafrost, frozen-core dams, ground ice, water quality, waste rock management, acid drainage, nitrogen contamination, explosives, ANFO, ammonia, nitrate, thermal modeling, seepage, frost heave, seasonal thaw, ground water, esker quarrying, consolidation and settlement, tailings settling
- Pages
- 16
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