Wastewater and Tailings Management Plan, Ekati Diamond Mine (EBA Engineering, June 1998)
This wastewater and tailings management plan for the Ekati Diamond Mine describes the comprehensive handling of process plant tailings, pit water, plant site drainage, and sewage over a 25-year mine life, with Long Lake designated as the primary tailings containment area for the first 20 years and detailed water balance calculations addressing precipitation, evaporation, seepage, and discharge requirements.
- Date
- 1998-06-01
- Document type
- report
- Parties
- BHP Diamonds Inc., EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd., Northwest Territories Water Board, NWT Technical Advisor Committee, Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency
- Locations
- Ekati Diamond Mine, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Long Lake, Panda Lake, Koala Lake, Kodiak Lake, Misery Lake, Lac de Gras, Leslie Lake, Grizzly Lake, Fox Pit, Panda Pit, Koala Pit, Misery Pit, Underground Mine Shaft
- Parameters
- wastewater management, tailings disposal, water quality, solids and water balance, tailings characterization, consolidation, precipitation and runoff, evaporation, wind erosion, pit water, sewage treatment, suspended solids, turbidity, flocculants and coagulants, permafrost, seepage, discharge criteria, lake bottom sediments
- Pages
- 77
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