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Mine Water Management

Mine Water Management Overview
Tony Rex, Tom Sharp

As the mining industry focuses on improving productivity, reducing operating costs, and venturing into ever more challenging and remote locations for new projects, there is an increased need to look upon water as a whole-project issue.

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Predicting Groundwater Inflows At The Yaramoko Gold Mine, Burkina Faso
Michael Palmer

Groundwater flow in crystalline rock environments with poorly developed or unsaturated saprolite is dominated by fracture flow, whether this be within the upper weathered/fractured zone or deeper in the bedrock where structural discontinuities are present.

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Integrating Climate Change Into Engineering Design
Victor Muñoz

During the last several decades, global climate change (GCC) has emerged as a key driver of environmental processes.

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Assessing Flood Hydrology In Data Scarce Tropical Regions
Francis Smith

A robust hydrological assessment can be a challenging task in regions where a lack of data, of a sufficient quality, is available to fully validate both hydrological assessments.

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Infiltration Study In A Thickened Tailings Deposit
Beatriz Labarca

In 2007, SRK Chile was involved in designing the first large-scale facility for thickened tailings in Chile.

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Mine Water Management: Recent Experience From India
Sujit Roy

One of the largest cement manufacturing companies in India, OCL India Limited, produces limestone from its open-cut Lanjiberna mine.

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Effective Dewatering And Depressurisation At Operational Mine Sites
James Bellin

When it comes to dewatering and depressurisation at operational mine sites, getting the technical understanding right is only half the story.

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Managing Saline Groundwater
Tom Sharp

Mining operations frequently encounter saline groundwater below permafrost on the Canadian Shield.

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Predictions Of Mine Waste Geochemistry In Arctic Conditions
Jessica Charles

The management and use of water is a critical concern for mine project viability and profitability.

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Hydrogeologic Characterisation And Modelling For Block Cave Mine Vs Open-Pit Mine Dewatering
Roger Howell, Vladimir Ugorets

At a large Cu-Au deposit in the Philippines, mineralised porphyries occur below an erosional surface buried by post-mineralisation volcanic and lake-bed deposits (cover sequence); ore lies below the river stage in hilly terrane where rainfall totals 4.8 meters annually.

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Surface Water Management In High Rainfall Environments
Juanita Martin

Water management at sites generating excess impacted water can result in high costs and risks if the development concept is advanced without consideration of certain key aspects.

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User Friendly Dashboards For Dynamic Water Management
Peter Shepherd

SRK conducted the water management aspects of a Feasibility Study for the Tete Pig Iron and FerroVanadium Project in Mozambique.

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Integration Of Pore Pressure Modelling With Slope Design
Michael Royle, Gregory Fagerlund

Integrating groundwater pressures into slope stability modelling is an evolving process in mine design.

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Improved Conceptualisation Of Shallow Weathered Groundwater Flow Using Surface Geophysics
Paul Hubbard

Shallow groundwater flow in weathered hard rock areas typically focuses on fractured weathered zones, which are often simplistically conceptualised with a uniform thickness and permeability.

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Water Supply For A Permafrost Mine Project In Northern Russia
Houcyne El Idrysy, Lenar Sultanov

Mine project Feasibility Studies (FS) usually require the involvement of various consultancies and process design companies where cooperation between the involved parties is critical to the success of the study.

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Seepage Estimates From Tailings Impoundments
Simon Lorentz

SRK has a long history of evaluating tailings dam hydraulic and hydrological processes.

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Optimising Mine Pollution Control Measures
Sheila Imrie, Simon Lorentz

Palabora Copper (PC) operated an open pit to recover copper ore (and secondary metals) from 1964 until 2002, and has since mined the ore by underground block caving.

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Design Of In-Situ Water Treatment Of Acid Contaminated Lake
Soren Jensen

The Lorado site is an abandoned uranium milling operation located on the western shore of Nero Lake in northern Saskatchewan.

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Prediction Of Cyanide Draindown In Arid Environments
David Tait, Iozsef Miskolczi

Heap leach pads are continuously irrigated with raffinate solution during their operational life; typically cyanide solution for gold ore, and sulfuric acid for base metal leaching such as copper or nickel.

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The Application Of Satellite Remote Sensing In The Mining Sector
Peter Shepherd

It is becoming increasingly important for mines to stay up-to-date with the latest monitoring technology to ensure water resources are monitored efficiently on site, both from a water management point of view and from a compliance and legislative point of view.

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Elandsfontein, Western Cape: Groundwater Predictive Numerical Modelling
Sheila Imrie

The proposed Elandsfontein phosphate open pit mine is located on the south-western coast of South Africa, 8km inland from the environmentally sensitive Langebaan Lagoon, and bordering the West Coast National Park.

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Using Analogs To Predict Future Pit Lake Chemistry
Ruth Warrender, Amy Prestia

Predicting pit lake chemistry after closure is integral for demonstrating compliance during the Environmental Impact Assessment and mine permitting process.

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Isotopes To Define Natural Water
José Miguel García, Osamu Suzuki

Water isotopes (2H and 18O) are stable compounds and their principal fractionation comes from the evaporation and condensation process.

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Mine Water Risk Management: An Integrated Approach
Tony Rex

When it comes to water, the requirements of mining operations vary enormously, and the risks associated with water are different from site to site.

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Post-Closure Groundwater Impact Assessment - Olympic Dam
Claire Linklater, John Chapman

The current BHP Billiton Olympic Dam operation comprises underground workings and a number of surface facilities, including the tailings storage facility (TSF) and processing plant.

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