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Tailings pile of residues from potash processing in an early stage
of recultivation
Old
versus recent fashion of potash production sites: - the Roßleben
potash plant in mid-1970 style and the Siegmundshall potash plant,
operated by K+S KALI GmbH in latest industrial style at the
beginning of the 21st century
Water quality - one of the most important issues surrounding
mineral salt production sites - investigated by biological studies
of flora and fauna
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During recent decades attention has been
focused on the environmental impacts of human activities,
especially sustainability of industrial activities.
The scale of operations and the area influenced
by the mining industry and their treatment or processing
facilities continue to grow, so too has the public concern over
the industries capability to manage and mitigate environmental
impacts. Thus most governments have imposed strict regulations to
protect ecosystems and to maintain a save and secure environment
in the vicinity of production sites. To meet these regulations but
be nevertheless in an efficient economic frame it needs particular
know-how.
ERCOSPLAN Group of Companies
can support both, the project owner in planning
the necessary protection measures for your mine and processing
sites or the governmental authorities in necessary permission
procedures.
In more than half a century in the potash
industry we have been involved in more than 100 projects with an
environmental background located in five continents.
Based on the expert knowledge collected by
these worldwide experiences our senior staff will accompany your
project
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from the first Environmental Impact Assessment
studies
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through reference site monitoring before the
project starts, design of monitoring measures during site
preparation, start-up and production
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up to the design of particular closing
procedures and post-operational monitoring measures,
as well as
and can provide any required independent expert
judgement. |
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Prognosis of surface subsidence over mine fields with different
mining
and backfilling methods |
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Recent industrial production have to consider
on interactive network of environmental issues which is particular
for different industrial branches. Since the specific situation in
the mineral salt industry, e.g. the water-soluble mineral deposit
or the large brine streams handling in salt processing plants,
very particular protection measures are needed for long-term safe
operation.
As valuable basis for such expert judgement
ERCOSPLAN can provide own references and experiences from many
operations world wide.
During the production stage, optimisation of
waste management and water balance for example, helps you to
reduce operation costs. Last but not least, after abandonment the
environmentally safe mine and processing site reclamation as well
as the plant demolition can be guaranteed by design and
supervision from ERCOSPLAN. |
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