estimating solute release from mining operations...•modeling required to apply laboratory results...
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Estimating Solute Release from Mining Operations
Kim LapakkoMinnesota DNR
USGS Bad River Mining Workshop 12-14 September 2011
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BACKGROUND
• NEW MINE CHANGES LANDSCAPE
– Physical
– Geochemical
• NEW MINING CONCERN
Water quality impacts
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Some Pits Serve asMunicipal Water Supply
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Other Pits Don’t
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BACKGROUND
TO ADDRESS CONCERN
• NEED PRIOR TO OPERATIONEstimates of solute release from source terms
• ESTIMATES USED– Impact assessment– Mitigation design– Financial assurance
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ReceptorsSource
Pit, tunnel, waste piles tailings pilesstorage areasmechanical
shopslabs
Mine or Mill
Soil, directly or indirectly
Air – dust, precipitation
Water, surface or groundwater
Biota
Pathway
People
Animals
Invertebrates
Vegetation
From Carol Russell
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BACKGROUND
• MINE WASTES OF CONCERN
– Mine
– Waste Rock
– Tailings
– Metallurgical wastes
– Other
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BACKGROUND
• WATER QUALITY CONCERNS
– Acidic drainage
– Neutral drainage with heavy metals
– Neutral drainage with sulfate
– Process related solutes
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OBJECTIVE: ESTIMATE SOLUTE RELEASE FROM MINE WASTES
GENERAL APPROACH
1. Determine baseline conditions
2. Impose mine plan
3. Mine waste geochemical characterization
3.1. Existing information
3.2. Conduct tests (some peripheral information)
4. Develop model to estimate release
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1. BASELINE CONDITIONS
• Water quality• Hydrology
– Surface– Ground water
• Soils• Glacial overburden• Bedrock• Climate (Precipitation, Temperature)• Topography• Other
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2. IMPOSE MINE PLAN
2.1. Conventional economic components
– Mine → → Ore
– Mineral Processing → → Concentrate
– Metallurgy → → Refined product
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2. IMPOSE MINE PLAN
2.2. Environmental components
– Mine → →
• Mine walls and floor
• Waste rock
– Mineral processing → → Tailings (coarse, fine)
– Metallurgy → →
• Slag
• Hydrometallurgical wastes
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2. IMPOSE MINE PLAN
2.2. Environmental components
Waste Rock Information for Modeling
• Rock units present
• Mass of rock units
• Compositional variation of rock units
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2. Impose Mine Plan
2.2. Environmental Components
• Drill core data for waste rock
– Logging (e.g. rock types, visual examination)
– Chemical analysis
– Mineralogy/Petrology
• Mineral processing pilot tests
• Metallurgical processing pilot tests
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2. IMPOSE MINE PLAN
2.3. Mine Waste Management
• Water treatment
• Covers
– Soil + Vegetation
– Clay
– Geotextiles
• Subaqueous
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3. Geochemical Characterization
3.1. Existing information: Rock → Water
• Baseline water quality
• Soil signatures
• Vegetative signatures
• Geological description
• Geoenvironmental model– Solute release related to rock composition
– Solute release related to mining and processing
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3. Geochemical Characterization
3.1. Existing information• Drill core data for waste rock
• Mineral processing pilot tests
– Tailings composition
– Water quality
– Release rates
• Metallurgical processing pilot tests
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3. Geochemical Characterization
3.2. Conduct tests
• Why?
– Better understand rock → water quality
• On what?
– Drill core
– Tailings from mineral processing tests
– Wastes from metallurgical tests
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3. Geochemical Characterization3.2. Conduct tests
Drainage quality = f(solid-phase characteristics)
• Solid-phase characterization
– Chemical analysis (What’s here? How much?)
– Mineralogical/petrological analysis (How occurs?)
– Metal partitioning (How readily released?)
– Static tests (acid and neutralization potentials)
• (See White et al. 1999)
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Duluth Complex drill core
sulfide
plagioclase
olivine
oxide
Core is 2” in diameter (vertical dimension in photo).
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Pyrite included in +2000 μm rock particle
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Partially exposed pyritein 75-150 μm particle
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Liberated pyrite in 75-150 size fraction
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Framboidal Pyrite is Bumpyand has High Area/Unit Mass
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3. Geochemical Characterization3.2. Conduct tests
• Short-term dissolution tests (soluble salts)
• Kinetic tests (long-term dissolution tests)
– Soluble salts, other mineral dissolution
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3.2. Conduct tests ASTM 5744 kinetic testing of waste rock
Provide rates for modeling solute release in field
Test representative
samples.
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ASTM 5744
Mine Waste Dissolution Test Method
• Provides detailed description of protocol
– Provide guidance for new practitioners
– Promote method consistency
– Increase reproducibility of results
• See Bucknam et al. 2009 for changes
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ASTM 5744 Protocol
• 1 kg sample used for testing
• Waste rock particle diameter < 6.25 mm
• Characterize sample
– Particle size distribution
– Chemistry
– Mineralogy
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ASTM Humidity Cell
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ASTM 5744 Protocol
• React with air, humidity in cell for 1 week
• Rinse on seventh day (500 or 1000 mL)
• Analyze drainage for
– pH
– Acidity, alkalinity
– Sulfate
– Other solutes
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Determine SO4 release rates forArchean Greenstone, 1.22% S
0 50 100 150 200 250
Weeks
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0 50 100 150 200 2500
250
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0 50 100 150 200 2500
250
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0.05 %S
0.20 %S
0.20 %S
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Average sulfate rates: µmol(kg•wk)-1
0
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0 50 100 150 200 250
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S.D. = 51
Avg = 292
S.D. = 31Avg = 226
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4. ModelingLab to Field?
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4. Modeling lab to field~1000 t Duluth Complex Test Piles
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4. Modeling lab to field~60-ton test piles & barrel tests
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4. Lab to Field Modeling:A general description.
• Practical modeling to inform mine waste management decisions
• Focus on waste rock
• Interface of geochemistry and regulation
• Don’t have all answers
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Baseline Condition
Surface & ground water
chemistry
Climate (T,P)Surface & GW
flow
Site topography
BedrockSoils
Other
Vegetation
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MinePlan
Block ModelOre, WR
Mine Dimensions WR mass &
composition
WR management plan
Mine wall rock composition
Tailings mass & composition
Water balances
Mine & mineral processing wastes
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Conceptual view of waste rock pile (Gard Guide).
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Conceptual Model
Mine plan interaction with the environment?What affects quantity and quality of drainage?
Baseline condition
Mine waste facility description for mine plan Scientific
principles
Assumptions
Existing Data
Data generated by project(including kinetic test data)
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Quantitative description of
model
Develop computational machinery
Determine quantitative input ranges
WR pile mass
WR composition
Reaction conditions
Reaction rates (kinetic tests)Input water
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OutputRelease Rates
Sensitivity
Uncertainty
Probability distribution
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Quantitative description
Output
Probability
Conceptual Model
Baseline conditions
Mine Plan
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Guidance (see NRC 2007)
• Transparency (balance simplicity < > rigor)
• Computational checks on calculations (e.g. vs.simplifications, other models, empirical data)
• Conceptual model scientifically sound
• Algorithms accurately reflect conceptual model
• Inputs and assumptions sound
• Sensitivity (important inputs)
• Uncertainty (probabilistic reflection of output)
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Summary
• Prior to mining, predict mine drainage quality, solute release rates
• Need site conditions, mine plan
• Characterization/prediction program based on above
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Summary
• Kinetic tests yield solute release rates
• Modeling required to apply laboratory results to field
– Mine plan superimposed on existing conditions
– Conceptual model based on science
– Transparent
– Sensitivity analysis
– Output expressed as probability
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References and Helpful PublicationsBucknam. C.H., White III, W., Lapakko, K.A. 2009. Standardization of Mine Waste
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Environment Canada. 2009. Environmental Code of Practice for Metal Mines.
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GARD Guide. www.gardguide.com.
Lapakko, K.A. 2003a. Solid Phase Characterization for Metal Mine Waste Drainage Quality Prediction. Preprint 03-93 In Proc. 2003 SME Annual Meeting, February 24-27, Cincinnati, OH (CD-ROM). Soc. For Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc. Littleton, CO.
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Maest A.S., Kuipers, J.R., Travers, C.I., Atkins, D.A. 2005. Predicting water quality at hardrock mines: methods and models, uncertainties and state-of-the-art. Kuipers& Associates and Buka Environmental.
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MMSD. 2002. Breaking New Ground: The Report of the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development Project, May 2002. Earthscan Publications Ltd., London. http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdfs/9084IIED.pdf
National Research Council. 2007. Models in the Environmental Regulatory Decision Process. National Academy of Sciences. 286 p.
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11972 Price W.A. 2009. Prediction manual of drainage chemistry from sulphidic geologic materials. MEND Report 1.20.1.
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White, W.W. III, Lapakko, K.A., Cox, R.L. 1999. Static-test methods most commonly used to predict acid-mine drainage: Practical guidelines for use and interpretation. In Reviews in Economic Geology, Volume 7. The Environmental Geochemistry of Mineral Deposits, Part A: Processes, techniques, techniques, and health issues. G.S. Plumlee, M.J. Logsdon (eds.). Society of Economic Geologists. p. 325-338.