Minerals And Mining (Health, Safety And Technical Regulations, 2012) (L.I. 2182)
Regulation 241
The manager of a processing plant shall in relation to that plant
(a) develop and maintain a detailed and comprehensive water management program to prevent unintentional releases including maintaining adequate freeboard on tailings dam complexes;
(b) cause to be conducted annual cyanide environmental audits and take appropriate action where required;
(c) develop cyanide balance for each metallurgical treatment facility in order to establish consumption trends of cyanide by the various processes;
(d) cause to be performed routine pulp, solid and solution flows on identified unit processes;
(e) establish an effective surface water quality-monitoring programme in which daily monitoring is conducted at each medium to high environmental risk area including water dams that have the potential to overflow into a clean water catchment or beyond mine boundaries and conducting monthly monitoring at low risk areas including fresh water dams and springs;
(f) establish an effective groundwater quality-monitoring programme; and
(g) establish an effective tailings dam monitoring programme in which routine monitoring is conducted at penstock decants, penstock inlets, return water systems and underdrains.
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