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Environmental Monitoring Guideline
This Guideline defines requirements for Environmental Monitoring. It is applicable to all land owned and/or managed by WMC, including: joint ventures where WMC has management control, and; WMC land holdings on which third parties operate. WMCs activities cause... Read more
Environmental Impacts Management Standard
This Standard provides an overview of the key processes required for the management of risks posed to the environment as a result of the company's operations, the causal agents of environmental impacts (referred to as Aspects), and the environmental impacts... Read more
International Workshop on Environmental Regulation For Accident Prevention in Mining:Tailings and Chemicals Management
The Workshop on Environmental Regulation For Accident Prevention in Mining: Tailings and Chemicals Management, held in Perth,Australia, in October 2000, brought together regulators and experts from around 20 countries to share experience, practices and problems associated with regulation of the... Read more
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Deep Mine Safety, Quecreek Mine Inundation, July 24, 2002, Report of
On July 24, 2002 miners working in the 1st Left Section of the Quecreek No. 1 Mine (in Somerset County, Pennsylvania) cut into Saxman Coal and Coke Company s Harrison 2 Mine, a flooded adjacent abandoned mine. Nine men working... Read more
Metals Environmental Risk Assessment Guidance
Understanding the potential environmental risks posed by metals is a key factor in ensuring that they are produced and used safely. For mining and metals companies this is an important aspect of materials stewardship, whereby companies are extending their interest... Read more
Metals Environmental Risk Assessment Guidance - Fact Sheet 1 - Risk Characterization: General Aspects
In the risk characterization phase of a risk assessment, predicted or measured environmental concentrations are compared to the obtained toxicity values (effect thresholds) for each environmental compartment to identify potential risks. This fact sheet presents the general building stones of... Read more
Environmental Impacts Management Audit Protocol
This document is designed to enable an auditor to assess the conformance of a site with the Environmental Impacts Management Standard. There are three elements addressed by this internal audit protocol:Procedures; Practices; Outcomes. ... Read more
Checklist for Planning a Workforce Environmental Awareness Training Program
The document provides a checklist for planning a workforce environmental awareness training. ... Read more
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PROCEDURE
The purpose of this procedure is to provide guidance to all mine employees and contractors as to their responsibilities to the mine, fellow employees and colleagues in terms of the identification and reporting of environmental nonconformances and incidents on the... Read more
Making a difference - A basic guide to environmental management for OSH practitioners
OHS practitioners working in an H, S & E role need to understand the relationships between health and safety, and environmental policy, law and practice. Regardless of whether H, S & E professionals have a strategic or day to day... Read more
Environmental and Safety Requirements for Machinery for the Mining and Minerals Industry
Environmental and Safety requirements for machinery for the mining and mineral industry. A guide that is useful for all actors within the areas of design, construction and purchase of machinery and other technical equipment for work used in the mining... Read more
Environmental Design Criteria Guideline
This document provides direction and guidance on the design of facilities for the purpose of minimising our impacts on the environment. ... Read more
Stope Leaching Reduces Surface Environmental Impacts From Underground Mining
Conventional underground mining practices include excavating the ore and transporting the ore to the surface for processing. Underground mining systems handle tons of solid material to produce kilograms, and sometimes only grams, of final product. Processing of ore on the... Read more
REPORT OF INVESTIGATION - Black Wolf Coal Company, Inc. Quecreek No. 1 Mine, Quecreek, Somerset County, Pennsylvania
This report presents the findings of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Bureau of Deep Mine Safety (BDMS) investigation of the inundation accident that occurred on July 24, 2002, at Quecreek Mining Company, Inc. s Quecreek No. 1 Mine... Read more
Water Quality Management in Mining and Mineral processing : An Overview : Water Quality Protection Guidelines No. 1
This guideline has been prepared by the Water and Rivers Commission in consultation with the WA Department of Environmental Protection and the WA Department of Minerals and Energy. Its aim is to provide information on acceptable environmental practices in the... Read more
Guidelines for the use of probes in combination with digital methane detectors to be used for methane examinations for mining
These guidelines consolidate the previously issued guidelines and shall supercede all previously issued guidelines for use of probe systems with digital methane detectors. These Guidelines are for the use of State approved digital methane detectors on extensible probes. The extensible... Read more
GUIDE TO USE ENTRIES IN COMMON WITH THE BELT CONVEYOR ENTRY
In general, these guidelines will be used for evaluating Section 702 requests to use entries in common with the belt conveyor entry. Sets general requirements for ventilation and gas detection. ... Read more
GUIDELINES FOR MINE WIDE MONITORING SYSTEMS (MWMS)
System plans (4) must be submitted, which comply with these guidelines. The plans must include a request letter with a system description, a line diagram of the system, a manufactures installation and maintenance manual and the guidelines. Tentative approval must... Read more
Guidelines for Approval of Fan Spray Systems
Guidelines for developing a Dust Suppression Plan for installation at the coal mining face ... Read more
Guidelines for Operating a Remote Control Continuous Mining Machine for Extended Deep Cut Mining
Guidelines for Operating a Remote Control Continuous Mining Machine for Extended Deep Cut Mining ... Read more
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