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This book documents the most extensive study ever on the use of deep sea tailing placement at the Island Copper Mine on Canada's Vancouver Island. The study examined all aspects of this innovative program which utilized 400 million tones of tailing solids, beginning with it's initial implementation in 1971 to five years after the mine's closure in 1995. Coverage includes placement program, engineering, chemical, biological, cost savings and environmental considerations. Includes 8 color pages. Contents: An Introduction to Deep Sea Tailing Placement; Selection of Subsea Tailing Placement; Engineering Challenges and Solutions; The History of Morphological Change on the Seafloor of Rupert and Holberg Inlets; Geochemistry: Chemical Stabilities of Tailing Sediment; Changes in Physical and Chemical Properties of Rupert Inlet Waters; Changes in the Biological Properties of the Pelagic Environment of Rupert Waters During 22 Years of Mine Operations; Seabed Biodiversity and Island Copper Mine: Impact and Recovery; Underwater Biodiversity Surveys and Biological Colonization of the Waste Dump Shoreline; Fisheries, Tailing Bioassays, Trace Metal Bioaccumulation in Benthos, and Settling Plates; Postclosure Rehabilitation and Assessment of Inlet System.

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Author:   George W. Poling ,  Derek V. Ellis ,  James W. Murray ,  Timothy R. Parson
Publisher:   Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration
Imprint:   Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   0.455kg
ISBN:  

9780873352147

ISBN 10:   0873352149
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   30 August 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable  
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