Tailings Management Plan, NWT Diamonds Project (EBA Engineering, December 1995)
This tailings management plan for the BHP Diamonds Project describes the design and operation of a 133-million-tonne tailings disposal system using Long Lake basin in the Northwest Territories, including perimeter dams, intermediate dykes, water management strategies, and long-term reclamation to restore the site to a wetland environment.
- Date
- 1995-12-15
- Document type
- report
- Parties
- BHP Diamonds Inc., EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd., Rescan, Fluor Daniel Wright-Signet, A. Robertson, University of Alberta, University of British Columbia
- Locations
- NWT Diamonds Project, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Long Lake, Lac de Gras, Koala watershed, Panda pit, Fox pit, Koala pit, Leslie Lake, Nema Lake, Leslie Pit, Kodiak Lake, Exeter Lake, North America, Russia, Arctic, Polaris Mine, Little Cornwallis Island, Lupin mine, Raglan nickel mine, Ungava Peninsula, Quebec
- Parameters
- mine tailings, suspended solids, water quality, clay minerals, smectitic clay, turbidity, consolidation, settling, water treatment, flocculants, permafrost, permeability, seepage, erosion resistance, geotechnical properties, tailings disposal, water management, water discharge criteria, closure, reclamation, revegetation, frost heave, active layer, groundwater
- Pages
- 108
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