Abstract
Australian Bulk Minerals purchased the Savage River Mine in 1996 from the Tasmanian government. The mine operates in a wet temperate environment in steep terrain and has an historic environmental legacy of acid rock drainage. Mining personnel have worked with the government to remediate the historic legacy and along the way have developed simple mine planning and mining techniques to maximize the cost effectiveness of the operation. This paper outlines several of those techniques, including ore and waste handling procedures, alkaline flow-through construction, waste dump construction and remediation of an historic acid producing waste dump by construction of combined water shedding and alkaline side covers.
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Hutchison, B. J., & Brett, D. (2006). Savage River Mine - Practical remediation works. In 7th International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage 2006, ICARD - Also Serves as the 23rd Annual Meetings of the American Society of Mining and Reclamation (Vol. 1, pp. 810–819). https://doi.org/10.21000/jasmr06020810
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