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Session 5 - Mine Closures - Challenges and Solutions

 Event - Almaty, Kazakhstan

According to official data, about 8,000 deposits are operating in Kazakhstan today. All of them were discovered back in the USSR times. But many of the deposits of lead, copper, and rare metals will be depleted in 10-15 years.

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SRK Kazakhstan Successfully Delivers Mine Closure Workshop

 Press Release

All SRK materials including presentations are available online and can be downloaded from the official SRK website

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Institutional Controls On Radioactive Mine Wastes

Don Hovdebo

Publication

During the last decade, most jurisdictions around the world implemented legislative requirements for mining and milling operations to prepare closure plans for decommissioning and reclamation.

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Planning Closure Of Arizona Closed Sites Using Field Erodibility Studies And Erosion Modeling

Terry Braun - November 2018

Publication - Article

BHP is planning for closure at the Miami Closed Sites copper mines in Arizona (USA).

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Using Mineralogy to Calculate Field Sulphide Oxidation Rates and Delay to ARD for Weathered Rock at the Ulu Project, Nunavut, Canada

 Event - Virtual

A method to calculate delay to acid rock drainage (ARD) using QEMSCAN mineralogical data from a 24-year site record of waste rock weathering conditions is presented in this case study of the Ulu gold project in Nunavut, Canada.

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Oil Shale Benefication Considerations

Sergei Sabanov - October 2012

Publication

SRK ES has the added advantage of being able to draw on the wider SRK Group's experience and therefore take projects beyond the exploration phase through to resource modelling and ultimately towards feasibility and production studies.

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Hydrogeologic Characterisation And Modelling For Block Cave Mine Vs Open-Pit Mine Dewatering

Vladimir Ugorets, Roger Howell

Publication

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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Fault Modelling for Rock Mass Studies in the Deep Mill Level Zone (DMLZ) Mine of PT. Freeport Indonesia

Wayne Barnett

Publication - SRK News Article

SRK undertook fault modelling for rock mass studies in the Deep Mill Level Zone (DMLZ) mine owned by PT Freeport Indonesia in Papua, Indonesia.

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Innovative Insights into Mine Water Flows

Richard Cheal - April 2024

Publication

Learn how tracer technologies can aid sustainable resource management in legacy and active mines in this article by SRK's Richard Cheal.

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Cori Hoag

 Consultant - Tucson, USA

Cori is a principal geologist at SRK’s Tucson office with over 35 years of experience and is licensed as a registered geologist in Arizona and Texas.

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