High-Resolution Pit Water Quality Model for the Highway Reward Mine, Queensland, Australia
- Organization:
- The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
- Pages:
- 7
- File Size:
- 1021 KB
- Publication Date:
- Jan 1, 2003
Abstract
Field and laboratory data combined with computational modelling have been used to predict the pit water quality for the Highway Reward mine. Open pit mining of the Highway Reward copper-gold deposit has produced a final mining void with a diameter of 600 m and a depth of 280 m. This void will be left to fill with ground and surface water once pumping of pit water ceases. Several leaching tables were constructed to simulate weathering reactions and surface water run-off in the major pit wall units during a 200-day leaching experiment. To date, about three-quarters through the experiment, combined run-off from these cells has reached a pH
Citation
APA: (2003) High-Resolution Pit Water Quality Model for the Highway Reward Mine, Queensland, Australia
MLA: High-Resolution Pit Water Quality Model for the Highway Reward Mine, Queensland, Australia. The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2003.