Design and construction of limestone blended waste rock dumps - Lessons learned from a 10-year study at Grasberg

7th International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage 2006, ICARD - Also Serves as the 23rd Annual Meetings of the American Society of Mining and Reclamation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1287-1301

  Miller, Stuart ^a   Rusdinar, Yuni ^b   Smart, Roger ^c   Andrina, Judy ^d   Richards, David ^e  

^a Environmental Geochemistry International Pty Limited   (Australia)

^b PT FREEPORT INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e Rio Tinto   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acid rock drainage; ANC; ANC MPA ratio; ARD; Blending; Leach column; Test pad

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; DRAINAGE; LIMESTONE; MINE TRUCKS; SULFUR;

ACID ROCK DRAINAGE; ANC/MPA RATIO; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; FULL-SCALE TRIALS; LABORATORY COLUMNS; OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; WASTE ROCK DUMPS;

LIME;

EID: 77649184414     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.21000/jasmr06021287     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

1. Andrina, J., Miller, S. and Neale, A. 2003. The Design, Construction, Instrumentation and Performance of a Full Scale Overburden Stockpile Trial for Mitigation of Acid Rock Drainage. Grasberg Mine, Papua Province, Indonesia. In Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage (ICARD 2003). Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
2. Miller S. D, Andrina J. and Richards. D. 2003a. Overburden Geochemistry and ARD Scale-Up investigations at the Grasberg Mine, Papua Province, Indonesia. In Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage (ICARD 2003). Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
3. Miller S. D., Smart R. St., Andrina J. and Richards. D. 2003b. Evaluation of Limestone Covers and Blends for Long Term ARD Control at the Grasberg Mine, Papua Province, Indonesia. In Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage (ICARD 2003). Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
4. Neale, A. 2003. Overview of the ARD Management Program at PT Freeport Indonesia Operations in Papua Province, Indonesia. In Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage (ICARD 2003). Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
5. Stewart, W., Miller, S., Smart, R., Gerson, A., Thomas, J., Skinner, W., Levay, G. and Schumann, R. 2003. Evaluation of the Net Acid Generation (NAG) Test for Assessing the Acid Generating Capacity of Sulphide Minerals. In Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage (ICARD 2003). Cairns, Queensland, Australia.