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Reclamation activities at the Nickel Plate Mine Lang, Gerald E.; Parsons, David Cecil; Napier, William A.

Abstract

Nickel Plate Mine is a 3 700 tonnes / day open pit gold mine located 45 kilometres west of Penticton. The mine is owned by Homestake Canada. During 1992 & 1993 the mine was able to demonstrate a number of progressive reclamation techniques. Last year over 18 000 000 tonnes of waste rock was removed during the Stage 4 expansion of the North Pit. The North Pit will be mined for the next three years. A number of waste rock dumps reached their capacity thereby making final reclamation possible. This paper describes how changes to the slope of the recent North Waste rock area allowed for the waste rock dump reclamation to coincide with rock placement. This process required alteration to the initial waste rock deposition design. Waste rock dump reclamation will be continuing, at an accelerated pace, for the next three years. The paper also describes the waste rock overburden methodologies and vegetation research for a mine situated at a high altitude.

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Title
Reclamation activities at the Nickel Plate Mine
Creator
Lang, Gerald E.; Parsons, David Cecil; Napier, William A.
Contributor
British Columbia Mine Reclamation Symposium; University of British Columbia. Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering
Date Issued
1994
Description
Nickel Plate Mine is a 3 700 tonnes / day open pit gold mine located 45 kilometres west of Penticton. The mine is owned by Homestake Canada. During 1992 & 1993 the mine was able to demonstrate a number of progressive reclamation techniques. Last year over 18 000 000 tonnes of waste rock was removed during the Stage 4 expansion of the North Pit. The North Pit will be mined for the next three years. A number of waste rock dumps reached their capacity thereby making final reclamation possible. This paper describes how changes to the slope of the recent North Waste rock area allowed for the waste rock dump reclamation to coincide with rock placement. This process required alteration to the initial waste rock deposition design. Waste rock dump reclamation will be continuing, at an accelerated pace, for the next three years. The paper also describes the waste rock overburden methodologies and vegetation research for a mine situated at a high altitude.
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Conference Paper
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2010-02-18
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0042251
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/20461
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Other
Copyright Holder
British Columbia Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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