Data Needs - Mining and the Environment: From Ore to Metal - page 113

Responsibility Data Source
Client Consultant Exist To be
generated
3.3 Project time line
● Exploration phase
● Bankable feasibility phase
● EIA approval
● Construction phase
● Expected mine life
● Mine closure
● Post-mining environmental care period
3.4 Ore reserves/resources in terms of
● Cutoff grade
● Proven reserves (spatial distribution, depth, volume)
● Grade and ore composition (associated metals)
3.5 Mining schedule, including
● Average ore production
● Maximum mine production
3.6 Mining methods including simplii ed l ow chart covering
mining up to product shipping
3.7 Details of processing facilities, such as
● Type and size of mill
● Type of benei ciation (hydro-, pyro-metallurgical process details)
● Chemicals/input materials used
● Energy demand
● Gaseous emissions (gases, noise, and particulates)
● Hydrocarbon wastes
● Toxic and hazardous wastes
3.8 Details of supporting infrastructure including
● Roads and bridges
● Haul road
● Rail lines and bridges
● Conveyor belts
● Harbour facilities (wharves/jetties, breakwaters, anchorages, aids
to navigation)
● Airi eld/heliport
● Conveyor
● Housing/Community complexes
● Health facility
● Ware house, maintenance yard
● Energy (source, generation and distribution)
● Waste water treatment facility
● Fuel pipelines
● Quarries, borrow pits
● Dams, dikes, levees, causeways, canals
● Sanitary land i ll
● Medical waste incinerator