The Challenges of dewatering at the victor diamond mine in northern Ontario, Canada

Mine Water and the Environment

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 99-107

  Atkinson, L C ^a   Keeping, P G ^b   Wright, J C ^a   Liu, Houmao ^a  

^a Itasca Denver Inc   (United States)

^b De Beers Group   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Groundwater modelling; Mine dewatering; Non laminar flow; Well efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953538119     PISSN: 10259112     EISSN: 16161068     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10230-010-0109-1     Document Type: Article

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