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Water in Mining 2009

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Understanding Mine Site Water and Salt Dynamics to Support Integrated Water Quality and Quantity Management

Water reuse is becoming an integral component of the water management strategy on mine sites. This practise is being driven by corporate sustainability goals, community and societal pressures to demonstrate improved water stewardship, as well as climate and regulatory pressures._x000D_
However, water reuse often results in water quality compromise which can then result in decreased recovery through problems in processing circuits, product quality, and an increased likelihood of discharge of water that cannot meet environmental regulatory requirements. On most mine sites, there is usually a disjuncture between water quantity management and water quality management with the latter being managed solely as an environmental problem. It is becoming increasingly clear that water quality and quantity must be managed as an integrated system. In order to integrate water quality and quantity management to achieve multiple objectives the dynamics of water and constituents must be understood. Using examples from a study being conducted at a coal mine in the Bowen Basin, this paper will outline the dynamics of water and salts on the site._x000D_
FORMAL CITATION:Vink, S, Moran, C J, Golding, S D, Baublys, K and Nanjappa, V, 2009. Understanding mine site water and salt dynamics to support integrated water quality and quantity management, in Proceedings Water in Mining 2009, pp 265-272 (The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Melbourne).
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