Acid mine drainage research in Canada
CIM Bulletin, Vol. 83, No. 944, 1990
M.P. Filion, L.L. Sirois, CANMET-EMR, and K. Ferguson, Environment Canada
Acidic drainage is the largest single environmental problem facing the Canadian mining industry today. Technologies to prevent acidic drainage from occurring in waste rock piles and tailings sites, and on the walls of open pits and underground mines, need to be developed and demonstrated. There are two groups in Canada which have accepted this challenge: the national Mine Environment Neutral Drainage (MEND) program and the British Columbia Acid Mine Drainage (BC AMD) Task Force. This paper summarizes the activities of these two organizations.
Keywords:
Tailings, Waste rock, Sulphide oxidation, MEND, AMD Task Force, Reactive wastes, Acid mine drainage, AMD, Environment.
