New Company to Clean up Mine Water
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A RESOURCE company will take over the Mount Morgan mine water treatment plant and use it to extract up to 300 tonnes of copper from the water every year
The State Government announced in parliament last week it had entered into a contract with Carbine Resources to treat contaminated water at the historic copper and gold mine.
This will improve water being released from the mine into the Dee River, which flows down to Dululu.
Carbine will take over the existing lime dosing water treatment plant at the mine and plans to retrofit the plant with an "ion exchanger".
In a statement, Carbine said it was aiming to extract 300tonnes of copper from the pit water.
Minister for Mines Anthony Lynham said the company would extract gold and pyrite from other parts of the mine.
"Carbine's management of the water treatment activities on site at Mount Morgan targets improving both the volume and quality of treated water entering the Dee River," the statement read.
"With Carbine's specialist technology, fresh water will not be needed. Carbine will treat up to 500megalitres of mine pit water over 12 months.
"This is at least three times what the existing treatment plant achieved in 2014-15."
Source: Central Telegraph
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