RECLAIM 8 User Manual, Mine Closure and Reclamation Cost Estimation Tool (Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, June 2025)
RECLAIM 8.0 is a user manual for a Microsoft Excel-based cost estimation tool developed by CIRNAC and GNWT to calculate closure and reclamation cost estimates for mines and advanced mineral exploration projects in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. The manual provides guidance on estimating direct and indirect costs associated with mine closure activities, including water treatment, waste management, interim care and maintenance, and post-closure monitoring.
- Date
- 2025-06-16
- Document type
- report
- Parties
- Territories and Northern Affairs Canada, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC), Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT), Government of Nunavut (GN), Land and Water Boards of the Mackenzie Valley (LWB), Nunavut Water Board (NWB), Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering (AACE)
- Locations
- Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Northern Canada, Yellowknife, Mackenzie Valley, Ekati Diamond Mine
- Parameters
- closure costs, reclamation costs, capital costs, direct costs, indirect costs, water treatment, water management, acid mine drainage, metal leaching, tailings impoundment, waste rock piles, contaminated soil, hazardous materials, interim care and maintenance, post-closure monitoring, environmental liability, contingency, mobilization/demobilization, escalation, inflation
- Pages
- 28
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