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PB
Peter Boyle
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BB
Brendan Barker
BB
Brendan
Barker
GW
Gwen Wilson
BJ
Ben Jones
TD
Tony Davis
Ben
Jones
Department
SHE
Date
Apr
2012
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Contents
Page
Purpose
Scope
Context
Objectives
Performance Targets
Legal Obligations
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Control Measures
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List of Tables
Table 1: Project Approval Conditions for Waste Management
Table 2: Waste Rock & Tailings Disposal
Table3: Predicted Annual Tailings Volumes and TSF2 Filling Data
Table 4: Non-Mineral Waste Types and Management
Table 5: Waste Facility (Onsite and Offsite) Audits and Inspections
Table 6: Responsibilities
List of Figures
Figure 1: Waste Management Hierarchy
Figure 2: TSF2 Blackwood Pit Looking East
Figure 3: Layout of the Delivery and Return Lines at Blackwood Pit
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Purp
ose
1.1
This Waste Management Plan (WMP) outlines the wastes generated by the Rasp
Mine operations and details requirements for storage and disposal.
Scop
e
2.1
This WMP applies to any waste generated by employees, contractors and processes
at the Rasp Mine located on Consolidated Mine Lease 7 (CML7) in Broken Hill.
Cont
ext
3.1
Obje
ctives
4.1
4.2
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Perf
ormance Targets
5.1
5.2
To recycle and reuse waste products wherever economical feasible and practicable.
5.3
Mine
Waste Streams
6.1
The wastes that the Mine will generate can be categorised as mineral and nonmineral wastes.
6.2
6.3
fencing materials;
sewerage.
Lega
l Obligations
7.1
Obligations
Condition 32: The Proponent shall:
(a) Minimize the waste generated by the project; and
(b) ensure that the waste generated by the project is
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Obligations
appropriately stored, handled, and disposed of, to the
satisfaction of the Director-General.
Obligations
- non-compliances with the conditions of this approval
and statutory requirements; and
- exceedances of the impact assessment criteria
and/or performance criteria; and
(h) a protocol for periodic review of the plan.
7.2
The Director General Requirements (March 2009) referenced the following policies
and guidelines with respect to waste management:
The WMP provides a framework to minimise the environment, safety and health
hazards associated with the handling, storage and disposal of those waste products
generated by activities conducted by or on behalf of BHOP.
7.4
BHOP will ensure that the mine will comply with the requirements of the
POEO Act, through the adoption of a waste hierarchy philosophy of Avoid,
Reuse, Recycle and Disposal.
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7.5
The object of the Act is to encourage the most efficient use of resources, to
reduce environmental harm, and to provide for the continual reduction in
waste generation.
7.6
The production of non-mineral waste will be controlled and reduced through the
accurate ordering of materials and the avoidance of over-ordering and potential
wastage of materials. All materials, which are available for recycling, will be collected
and recycled off-site. Only materials, which do not fit into the above categories, will
be disposed of to an appropriately licensed facility.
7.7
BHOP will investigate the use of grey water from the site office, bathhouse and other
amenities for re-use around the mine site.
7.8
BHOP will undertake waste management on site in accordance with the legislation
and guidelines listed in section 1.3. All contractors removing waste from site will be
suitably licensed with appropriate governing bodies as required. Wastes, which are
required to be tracked, will be done so, in accordance with the relevant legislation.
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8
Waste Generated and Management
8.1
Proposed
Tailings disposal
8.2
Waste rock
8.2.1
8.2.2
8.2.3
fill material for earth bunding to be built as part of the noise mitigation;
and / or
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8.3
Tailing Disposal
8.3.1
8.3.2
Year
Estimated Surface
Tailings Volume
(m3)
Cumulative Tailings
Volume
(m3)
Predicted Storage
Elevation
(RL m)
270 698
270 698
275.0
234 981
505 679
281.2
246 111
751 790
286.3
242 293
994 083
290.7
256 717
1 250 800
294.9
217 263
1 468 063
298.2
177 808
1 645 871
300.6
168 899
1 814 771
302.8
170 596
1 985 367
304.9
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8.3.2
Tailings properties have been defined through test work and from historic
mining operations on the site. The tailings properties are:
water/solids ratio - 55% to 60% solids (at point of discharge from back
fill plant);
dry settled density for TSF2 ranges from 1.50 to 1.65 t/m3
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Tailings are piped from the processing plant to the mine backfill plant; pipes
are trenched and / or bunded. At the back fill plant the tailings are
thickened and separated by cycloning to produce two waste streams
differentiated by particle size. The coarser fraction of the tailings stream
are directed underground via boreholes and fill lines to mined voids (for
use as backfill). The remainder are deposited in surface storage in TSF2
the disused Blackwood Pit. The depth of the Pit varies from about 40 m at
the western end to about 70 m at the eastern end.
8.3.3
To utilize Blackwood Pit as a TSF limited earth works were
required. The existing perimeter bunds around the Pit were extended
where required to maintain a nominal 1 m height and to divert storm water
runoff. There was no disturbance of vegetation or removal of topsoil for
these works. A water truck was utilized to control dust emissions from the
earthworks.
8.3.3.1
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The pipes will be butt welded and will include flange connections
where valves are required. Isolation rising stem gate valves will be
installed to enable selection of which discharge spigots will be
active. All pipework containing tailing outside of the Pit is bunded
to contain any tailing in the event of a rupture or damage to the
pipework.
The layout of the delivery and return lines at Blackwood Pit is
shown in Figure 3.
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8.3.3.2
A decant system will be used to extract water from TSF2 via two
extraction lines at the north western end of the facility. Two
extraction points are to be used to allow for potential migration of
the decant pond which may result from changes in the tailing
beach over the storage life. Extraction pumping will be from two
15kW submersible pumps located in slotted 560 mm HDPE
pipes. The pipelines will have height markings on their sides to
clearly display the height of the water in the decant pond. The
Pumps will be suspended by cables which will be calibrated with
height markings corresponding to those on the sides of the pipes
so that the height of the pump can be controlled to maintain it in
the decant pond. Decant water will be pumped via a 110 mm line
to the lined Plant Water Pond for utilisation in the concentrator
process.
When the decant water return is stopped the Plant Water Pond
pump will continue to deliver to the mill circuit water tank until it
reaches a low level at which point it will automatically stop. When
rainwater or further TSF return water report to this Pond the pump
will automatically start at the set operating level for the Pond. A
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8.3.3.4
8.3.3.5
The north east, west and south west area has been mined and
most of the old working were backfilled in the past. Some of the
shafts and connection drives may still be open but these are
relatively small openings that are expected to block up if tailings
was to migrate into these areas. The connection of the old and
new workings is through a deep level transport drive at Level
1480 (approximately 450m depth) that is well below the bottom of
the Pit and near the bottom of the old workings. Groundwater is
drawn down to at least this level by pumping from Shaft 7.
Hence the only migration from the tailings in Blackwood Pit is
likely to be seepage water from the tailings, with minor short
distance migration of tailings into the partially filled old mining
voids. Due to the low permeability of the tailings the slowly
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released water from the tailings is expected to seep into the old
workings, and be collected as part of the ongoing mine dewatering
at Shaft 7 and from mine dewatering within the Western
Mineralisation. The macro permeability of the old working and
surrounding rock mass on the side and below the Pit facilitate the
collection of released water from the tailings and prevent the bathtub effect forming in the Pit which could develop if the Pit
perimeter was of very low permeability. On this basis it is
expected that the tailings in the Pit will be drained mass of low
permeability.
The east side of the Pit comprises intact rock and minimal mine
workings. As such it is possible that perched water may develop
along the east side of the site between the lease boundary and
the Pit edge, due to the possibility that the upper rock zone around
the Pit may be of slightly higher permeability than the deeper high
strength rock mass. It is therefore proposed to install two bores
along the east side of the Pit, and install piezometers to a depth of
approximately the base level of the Pit adjacent to the bore (refer
Site Water Management Plan monitoring bores GW11 and
GW12).
8.3.3.6
There are two sets of water quality data, 2007 and 2011, for Shaft
7 water, with the latter 2011 data indicating groundwater
concentrations for some anolytes to be a magnitude higher. The
results of groundwater testing from Shaft 7 will be used as a
baseline. An initial comparison for concentrations of groundwater
will be set 30% higher than the 2011 values providing a level for
investigation. Once a trend is suspected, or if most contaminates
are detected greater than 30% above the 2011 values, an
investigation will be undertaken to determine the source of
contamination, the level of environmental risk and the remedial
action required.
If the signature of the sampled water indicates it is related to the
TSF and considered to be an unacceptable environmental risk,
options for remedial actions include the following:
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8.3.3.7
In the early years there will be no need for any additional dust
control beyond the placement of the tailing at the bottom of the Pit
by use of the long slotted pipes from the delivery main to the Pit
bottom. As the Pit is filled there will come a time when the tailing
will be subject to wind forces with potential for dust generation. At
that time mitigation measures will be applied by way of a water
ring main with water sprinklers to keep those areas of the tailing
which are dry beaches damp. The spray dust suppression will
also, if necessary, be augmented by the addition of a dust
suppressant to the spray water to crust and stabilize the tailing
surface.
Schedule 3 Condition 10 of the Project Approval requires that
video recording equipment be installed to assist in the active
management of emissions from the tailings storage facility. This
equipment will be installed as the tailings rise and there is the
potential for dust generation to escape from the Pit.
During routine inspections of the TSF by process plant personnel,
the generation of dust from the sides or surface of the facility,
including specific locations, shall be recorded on the daily record
sheet.
In addition the Air Quality Monitoring Program (BHO-ENV-PRM001) outlines requirements for dust monitoring. Real time
meteorological and dust monitoring will be used at two locations;
TEOM1, located in south and to the west of the Pit and TEOM2,
located adjacent and north of the Pit. These monitor PM10, wind
speed and direction continuously and are linked to the Processing
Control Room and the Environment and Community Officers
computer. Procedures for monitoring are outlined in the procedure
BHO-ENV-PRO-006 Real Time Monitoring for Operational Dust
Management.
8.3.3.8
8.4
Non-mineral waste
8.4.1
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Waste categories
Food scraps (putrescible
waste)
Food wrappers
Non-recyclable plastics
(packaging)
Rope
Rubber (hydraulic) hoses
Polystyrene cups
Damaged pallets or
wooden products
Rubber bands, metal clip
binders, pens
Damaged air filters
Est volume
Putrescible
waste not
known
Paper,
cardboard
and plastics
1.4t
Wooden
pallets, and
other items
not known
Paper
Cardboard
Plastics
Toner cartridges
Recyclable
waste
Scrap metal
up to 2t
Regulated
waste
Oils
Grease
Lubricants
Oily rags
Contaminated soils
Oils and
grease
10,000L
Other items
not known
Oily contaminated
absorbents
Oil filters
Oily water
Coolant
Contaminated hoses
Contaminated drums
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Hazardous
Waste
Waste categories
8.4.2
Est volume
Batteries 6
Other items
not known
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8.5
Wastewater
8.5.1
8.5.2
The vehicle wash facility is a closed system, with all wastewater captured
and directed through an oil / water separator and sediment separator, prior
to reuse as washdown water. Wastewater from the vehicle wash down
pads is discharged via an oil / water separator through a sequence of two
settling dams. Following settling, the water is reused on-site in the vehicle
wash facility, used in processing or allowed to evaporate.
8.5.3
The oil collected from the oil water separators is stored in drums within an
appropriately bunded facility beside the workshop until such time as the
waste oil can be collected by the local licensed contractor for disposal.
The sediment collected from the wash bay settlement ponds and the truck
wash sediment collection system, is collected and placed in a dedicated
sump (located in the vicinity of the settlement ponds) to be stabilised
before being transported. The stabilised sediments are transported to the
BHP Pit or Blackwood Pit where the sediment will be deposited.
Investigations will be undertaken in treating this waste water for use in dust
suppression and / or ground maintenance.
8.5.4
Waste Reduction - The following methods are used to minimise waste production:
The ordering of stock during the operation of the mine will be regularly
reviewed to ensure efficient stock control and to avoid wastage.
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All waste areas are clearly identified as waste storage areas. This
includes bins and other receptacles for domestic waste, and which would be
marked according to the type of waste accepted, eg. scrap metal, oil filters
and oily rages, other recyclables, general waste, etc.
Recycling - BHOP provides appropriate storage areas or receptacles for all materials
that are suitable for recycling. The main recyclable waste materials generated by the
mine and their primary source(s) are as follows
Metal: used metals are stored for reuse or recycled as scrap metal
and placed into large skip bins, which are collected by a metal recycler as
sufficient quantities are available.
The Environment and Community Officer will undertake regular inspections of waste
storage locations to check that appropriate separation and collection of waste is
being undertaken. As far as practical, BHOP will maintain a register of recycled
material at the Mine site.
9.4
Reuse of Waste Materials - Opportunities for the re-use of materials on site are
evaluated on a regular basis. Investigations will be undertaken for the use of effluent
from the site office, bathhouse and other amenities once treated to be re-used as
irrigation water on rehabilitation and landscaped areas in accordance with
Environmental Guidelines: Use of Effluent by Irrigation (DEC, 2004).
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Control Measures
10.1 Training
10.1.1
10.1.2
10.3 Monitoring
10.3.1
10.4.2
Table 5 lists the waste facility and their respective audit and inspection
action.
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Inspections
Regular monthly inspection across surface lease
Engineering inspections as outlined in the
Blackwood Pit Construction and Operations
Manual.
Once every 4 years
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Incident Reporting
10.5.1.1
Internal
External
BHOP will provide a written report, as required, within seven days of the
date of the incident.
The Environment and Community Officer is responsible for preparing
reports to government agencies which are signed off by the General
Manager prior to submission.
10.5.1.3
Complaints
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Title
Responsibility
10.9 References
The following documents and resources are relevant to this WMP Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.
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