Project Description, Jay Project Developer's Assessment Report, Section 3 (Dominion Diamond, October 2014)
This is Section 3 (Project Description) of Dominion Diamond's Developer's Assessment Report for the proposed Jay Project, submitted to the Mackenzie Valley Review Board in October 2014. It provides comprehensive technical details of the planned extension of the Ekati Diamond Mine through development of the Jay kimberlite pipe beneath Lac du Sauvage, including construction, operations, closure phases, geological and geotechnical characterization, and use of existing mine infrastructure.
- Date
- 2014-10-01
- Document type
- report
- Parties
- Dominion Diamond Ekati Corporation, Mackenzie Valley Review Board, Wek'èezhii Land and Water Board, Rio Tinto Plc, Golder Associates
- Locations
- Ekati Diamond Mine, Jay Project, Lac du Sauvage, Northwest Territories, Lac de Gras, Lac de Gras watershed, Misery Pit, Lynx Pit, Panda Pit, Koala Pit, Fox Pit, Beartooth Pit, Pigeon Pit, Long Lake Containment Facility, Leslie Lake, Yellowknife, Diavik Diamond Mine, Meadowbank Gold Mine, Slave Craton, Slave Structural Province, Arctic Circle, Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road, Christine Lake, Lac de Gras kimberlite field
- Parameters
- kimberlite pipe geology, open-pit mining, water management, dewatering, waste rock storage, processed kimberlite deposition, acid rock drainage, metal leaching, geotechnical conditions, hydrogeology, water quality, total suspended solids, dike construction, pit closure and reclamation, diamond processing, environmental management, closure and reclamation planning
- Pages
- 81
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