development.

TERRACE. —A mining com-

“pany is | revamping i its plans for a

"copper mine at the Windy
” Cragay ‘tite in‘the northwestern i

corner of the province in an at-

empt to address a potentially. |...
‘huge acid. mine. drainage pro

blem there, .

- Geddes - ‘Resources Lid. is ¢
“BR owaste-rock: Joe:
_ classification © program, ‘and. |.
plans to. submit: new results
- shortly as‘part of a revised first-
stage report for a -proposed -
mine development i inthe Haines:
“Triangle* ‘atop the Alaskan —
‘Panhandle,’ ae
Geddes’ original ‘plan was .
sent back'to the drawing board —
earlier this year after B.C.)

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Canadian and.U.S, - government

agencies ‘identified’ acid mine.

drainage’ as the number-one

problem for ‘the Proposed ~
Acid’ ‘mine: -
drainage - — occurring when acid’:
is feached out of ore crush by
rainwater | = can. kill fish. in. be
rivers and takes, and is con-" - '
sidered “one. of. the: main en-°
vironmental hazards associated °

with mining.
Located ‘high in the remote

‘St. Elias’ mountain range near
the B.C.-Yukon-Alaska border, ©

Windy Craggy Mountain is rich

in copper’ reserves, If Geddes’

application is successful it will
be the site of a 500- “employee
20-year-plus open-pit mine link-

ed to Haines’, Alaska by a road ;

running through until now un-
touched wilderness,

The project has so far been
‘dogged by adverse public opi-
nion, oo

Company. representatives say
their revised plan ‘will address
any ‘acid ° drainage concerns,
They were in. the northwest
recently going “over the plan
with the province's mine
development steering commit-
tee, which. consists .of various.

goveriiment’ agencies’ represen: -

ting different concerns — and
points of view about mine ap-
plications,

Geddes vice-president Keith

‘Sommerville said the company

plans to closely study the
characteristics of rock at Windy
Craggy to better determine the -

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rock.’

The critical thing in this’ is
where do you make this separa-
tion and how do you make it,’
Sommerville said of the study,

which involves laboratory work.

by a consultant and some field
‘work, oo:

Skeena region environment
ministry- representative ‘ Frank

Rhebergen said a whole con-

tinuum of. rock exists at the
Windy Cragey site, from

*‘super-acid generating material
to super-acid consuming rock,”

Identifying. where and how
much of each exists is critical to
the project's, feasibility, . said

Rhebergen, an engineering SEC.

tion head.
Crushing waste rock and
hauling the concentrate to a tail-

ings area’ will cost much more -
than the company’s original, re- &
_ jected plan, he added, -

“It's going to cost an awful

lot more than to simply dump it . §
over the mountain’ onto the |

glacier.”

Plans now call’ for acid. ,
/ generating material’t to be hauled
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to host.

‘mine conference

TERRACE — Stewart: plays
host this April to a mining con-
ference featuring presentations
and technical. papers: on all

aspects of northwest. mineral’
development...

. Minerals North 1991 is acon-
tinuation of similar conferences
held here -in 1989°- and.
Smithers: last year, ‘says “Terry
Heinricks, a Stewart alderman:
and mineral property owner.

“There'll be’ four -conference
sessions “April 10-12 - dealing

with an overview of the mining.
industry, an- overview of nor-
thern mining, the geology of the
-gold-bearing Eskay Creek area.
‘and a panel session.

is This’ latter .will concern the
theme of the conference which

is supporting; the: mineral. in-.

~ dustry. |

. Heinricks said there wili also |
_.-be a small trade show accompa-

“hhying the conference. -
“We're expecting ‘a. number
of people for what we think will
be informative sessions,” he
said.

*. Among those scheduled to

- speak are Mining Association of
B.C. president Tom Waterland -

- and. Jack. Patterson« from the:
. B.C. and Yukon Chamber of

Mines, ;
Scheduled are

‘tours of -

a huge tailings pond located in a
‘dammed-off adjacent valley.

Other non-acid generating’ -

material would. be dumped-on
site, mostly .on glaciers, Som-
merville said,

“Unless something. uriusual
turns up.in our test work; we're
confident we can use:.this
method,’ he said of storing the
tailings behind a huge.dam.

Sommerville - said- about 25
people are now ‘at the. Windy
Craggy site, working on the
mine's access and carrying out
drill-core studies on the glacier
and around. the tailings pond.

He said Geddes is working on
revised submissions for this spr-
ing as part of the environmental

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But Rhebergen ‘said he is a
“very doubtful?” that any: -@

Tesults: from the waste rack

classification program would be |

available by then, suggesting

November 1991 — if not later _

— would be a more probable
date, ,

“It is “extremely optimistic |

and probably unrealistic to ex-

pect an adequate Stage II sub- «

taission by early 1991,’* he said,

In the province's mine develop- ©

ment review process, approval-
in-principle is decided at the se-
cond stage. A public hearing

must first take place before that. | :

approval.

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