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ENVIRONMENT: Three people facing disciplinary hearings for roles in Mount Polley spill
BRITISH COLUMBIA – The regulatory body Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia is planning disciplinary hearings for three individuals with respect to the Mount Polley tailings spill in 2014. The regulator’s investigation committee alleges that three engineers involved in the design,…
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LITHIUM: Getting more value from brine – tech improvements reduce costs and increase recoveries for lithium
Bryan Schreiner, Jack Zhang and Lucinda Wood. The following is an excerpt from an article on the Saskatchewan Research Council’s (SRC) blog, From the Lab to the Loading Dock. Read the full version at www.SRC.sk.ca/blog. Lithium, the lightest metal on…
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Imperial’s VP environment talks remediation
Vice-president ‘Lyn Anglin speaks about the aftermath of the Mount Polley tailings spill
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The cleaner, drier future of mine waste
The Mount Polley tailings dam failure has spurred a look at tailings alternatives
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Yukon weighs large scale mining at Casino proposal
Western Copper & Gold’s Casino proposal shaped by tailings management
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Pan American Silver confirms ‘minor’ tailings spill at Huaron in Peru
Pan American Silver (TSX: PAA; NASDAQ: PAAS) has confirmed that a small tailings spill at its Huaron underground mine in central Peru, first reported in the local press, occurred earlier this week. “The Huaron mine experienced an unintended release of tailings…
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TAILINGS: MAC issues revised best practice guidelines
OTTAWA – On Nov. 7 the Mining Association of Canada released its third edition of its A Guide to the Management of Tailings Facilities. The release coincides with the Tailings and Mine Waste Conference in Banff, Alta. Canadian tailings management…
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OIL SANDS: Suncor gets okay to begin new tailings management system
ALBERTA – Suncor Energy said on Oct. 25 that it has received approval from the Alberta Energy Regulator for its base plant tailings directive application and related Millennium operational amendment application. Suncor can now work on implementing its tailings management…
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GOLD: Anaconda beginning infill program at Argyle
NEWFOUNDLAND – Anaconda Mining of Toronto has begun an infill percussion drill program at its Argyle gold discovery about 4.5 km from its Pine Cove mill and tailings facility at the Point Rousse project. The company plans to drill about…
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Gold: Key authorization issued for KSM’s tailings facility
Seabridge Gold announced today that the federal government has issued a regulatory amendment to Schedule 2 of the Metal Mining Effluent Regulations (MMER) under the Fisheries Act for Seabridge’s KSM Project located in northwestern British Columbia. The amendment authorizes certain…
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Tailings: FLSmidth, Goldcorp partner on EcoTails
FLSmidth will be working with Goldcorp to develop EcoTails, a new system to dramatically improve tailings and waste rock disposal while economically processing mine waste and increasing water recovery and reuse by as much as 90–95%. Together with the world’s…
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R & D: BacTech Environmental Engages Laurentian University for Ecuador Bioleach Study
TORONTO: BacTech Environmental Corporation today announced that it has engaged the services of Laurentian University specifically, the Vale Living with Lakes Centre located in Sudbury, Ontario, to provide bioleach test work for concentrates collected in Ecuador. BacTech is investigating the use…
