Kirkland Gold has awarded a contract to Veolia Water Technologies for the design and supply of a Reverse Osmosis plant to reduce chloride levels in the produced water stream at the Fosterville Gold Mine.
By Dr Robin Branson PhD, MBA, BSc. (Hons), Director Australian Industrial Ecology Network
The point has been made in previous articles in The ASIA Miner magazine, that sustainable development cannot occur unless something happens in practice. Certainly, theory and research are fundamentally important but in themselves, they are ineffectual unless the results are used to change things for the better.
The University of South Australia has a leading role in the new MinEx Cooperative Research Centre dedicated to developing a more sustainable and productive minerals industry for Australia.
Barrick’s Lagunas Norte operation has used an Ohio based modular thermal waste to energy specialist – Eco Waste Solutions (EWS) – to install an energy recovery system.