Minerals And Mining (Health, Safety And Technical Regulations, 2012) (L.I. 2182)
Regulation 246
A manager of a gold processing plant shall ensure that
(a) a heap leach pad in the plant has
(i) an emergency pond that can contain run-off water from the heap leach of a one-in-hundred years twenty-four hour storm event;
(ii) one borehole at each side to control ground water quality;
(iii) a soil liner of not less than thirty centimetres with a permeability of less than 1 x 10-7 cm/sec;
(iv) a drainage blanket of not less than fifty centimeters; and
(v) a HDPE liner with a permeability of less than 1 x 10-11 cm/sec;
(b) the drainage blanket is equipped with a leak detection system and a drainage system for recovery of the leakage; and
(c) a heap leach pad is not operated if the HDPE liner is defective.
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36 Second Cantonments Cl, Accra
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