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Metal leaching and acid rock drainage innovation and the factors to be addressed Price, W. A.

Abstract

Lots of hard work now and in the future is required to address metal leaching and acid rock drainage (ML/ARD) issues and sustain environmentally sound mining practices. Innovation has and will continue to have a big part to play in this. This presentation reviews some of the many innovations from the 1990s and the factors that need to be addressed in future innovation. Comprehensive understanding of both the scientific and practical aspects is needed to improve ML/ARD practices. This includes limited long-term operating experience, need to enable maintenance, potentially high costs, being proactive, many changing properties and processes, and the large multi-sector information requirements.

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Metal leaching and acid rock drainage innovation and the factors to be addressed
Creator
Price, W. A.
Contributor
British Columbia Mine Reclamation Symposium; University of British Columbia. Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering
Date Issued
2022-09
Description
Lots of hard work now and in the future is required to address metal leaching and acid rock drainage (ML/ARD) issues and sustain environmentally sound mining practices. Innovation has and will continue to have a big part to play in this. This presentation reviews some of the many innovations from the 1990s and the factors that need to be addressed in future innovation. Comprehensive understanding of both the scientific and practical aspects is needed to improve ML/ARD practices. This includes limited long-term operating experience, need to enable maintenance, potentially high costs, being proactive, many changing properties and processes, and the large multi-sector information requirements.
Subject
prediction; mitigation; research; regulation; financial liability
Genre
Conference Paper
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2022-11-04
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0421793
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/83121
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Other
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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