Minerals And Mining (Health, Safety And Technical Regulations, 2012) (L.I. 2182)
Regulation 283
The holder of a mining lease shall where a heap leach pad at the mine is to be closed,
(a) take measures to prevent meteoric water from infiltrating through the component;
(b) design the closed heap leach facility to be stable for the long term;
(c) carry out heap detoxification activities for WAD cyanide if applicable;
(d) provide the required pore volume, application rates and duration, and planned sampling of the heap in the respective operating plan;
(e) provide a drain down curve and records of facts and assumptions used in predicting what the long-term residual volume of drain down will be;
(f) provide heap effluent treatment, where necessary, and specific details of other items including dosing tanks, sampling ports, active and passive treatment systems, and the disposal system for treated effluent; and
(g) establish procedures for initiating final closure activities on the heap surface including re-sloping, capping or covering, solar reshaping and construction of diversion ditches.
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36 Second Cantonments Cl, Accra
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