[article]
Titre : |
Ranking and scoring potential environmental risks from solid mineral wastes |
Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
Auteurs : |
J. L. Broadhurst, Auteur ; J.G. Petrie, Auteur |
Année de publication : |
2011 |
Article en page(s) : |
pp. 182–191 |
Note générale : |
Génie Minier |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
Mots-clés : |
Environmental Pollution Sulfide ores Tailings disposal |
Résumé : |
The overall environmental performance of minerals beneficiation operations, in addition to their significant energy demand, is largely a function of the success or failure of waste management strategies to minimise the long-term impacts associated with the disposal of vast volumes of solid waste. Whilst forecasting such impacts, particularly in the early stages of a project, is arguably the most important element in an environmental performance assessment, it remains the most challenging. This paper describes a generic methodology which has been developed for ranking and scoring solid waste constituents on the basis of their hazard-forming potential and chemical behaviour under disposal conditions. The approach is demonstrated for the case of typical porphyry-type copper sulfide tailings. The predictive approach developed here is consistent with the screening phase of risk-based environmental assessment protocols, and is considered to be a vital and integral part of reliably quantifying the environmental life cycle impacts of solid mineral wastes. |
DEWEY : |
622 |
ISSN : |
0892-6875 |
En ligne : |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0892687509002337 |
in Minerals engineering > Vol. 23 N° 3 (Fevrier 2010) . - pp. 182–191
[article] Ranking and scoring potential environmental risks from solid mineral wastes [texte imprimé] / J. L. Broadhurst, Auteur ; J.G. Petrie, Auteur . - 2011 . - pp. 182–191. Génie Minier Langues : Anglais ( eng) in Minerals engineering > Vol. 23 N° 3 (Fevrier 2010) . - pp. 182–191
Mots-clés : |
Environmental Pollution Sulfide ores Tailings disposal |
Résumé : |
The overall environmental performance of minerals beneficiation operations, in addition to their significant energy demand, is largely a function of the success or failure of waste management strategies to minimise the long-term impacts associated with the disposal of vast volumes of solid waste. Whilst forecasting such impacts, particularly in the early stages of a project, is arguably the most important element in an environmental performance assessment, it remains the most challenging. This paper describes a generic methodology which has been developed for ranking and scoring solid waste constituents on the basis of their hazard-forming potential and chemical behaviour under disposal conditions. The approach is demonstrated for the case of typical porphyry-type copper sulfide tailings. The predictive approach developed here is consistent with the screening phase of risk-based environmental assessment protocols, and is considered to be a vital and integral part of reliably quantifying the environmental life cycle impacts of solid mineral wastes. |
DEWEY : |
622 |
ISSN : |
0892-6875 |
En ligne : |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0892687509002337 |
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