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To: koan who wrote (40714)	5/22/2007 12:35:22 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 78428

Not a park at the time. It was made into a Park by the NDP who said the company could not meet environmental requirements of acid drainage of the waste into the river. This was disputed by some US environmental experts, but the Websters said that the government of BC was not at the time disposed to issue mining permits no matter what solutions were presented. The NDP did take an active part in closing 138 mines in British Columbia and implicitly eventually disemploying perhaps 100,000 people in that and related industries over the next 10 years in that province. BC has never really recovered and since then has become a non preferred province to locate in for any sort of industrial enterprise. This is changing glacially perhaps, but vast areas of the province are still suspect, as they have been and may still be withdrawn from exploration. Basically successive regimes in BC appear intent to turn the province into a park in toto. Painting park benches may then become the preferred occupation. If you live there you might stock up on paintbrushes and green latex now, before the rush. A vaguely similar movement appeared to start in Ontario at a grass roots government level with the conservatives even under HArris, perhaps under the pretext that they wanted to get rid of the issue for once and for all with the "lands for life" program. This may backfire, as many of the ideas were wrong headed and appear to have impeded prospecting. EC<:-}

To: koan who wrote (40714)	5/22/2007 12:58:02 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 78428

You have to read the cartoon to get an handle on Windy Craggy.. spacesfornature.org More agitprop wildernesscommittee.org The history with some bias american.edu Geological Potential empr.gov.bc.ca Part of what they kissed goodbye geology.gov.yk.ca The truth The Tatenshini is a wilderness park, extreme northwestern British Columbia, Canada, sandwiched between Yukon Territory to the north and the Alaskan Panhandle (U.S.) to the west and south. It was created in 1993 largely to prevent the open-pit mining of a large copper deposit at the head of Tats Creek (Windy Craggy), now in the centre of the park. Designated a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1994, the park A more balanced side oldfraser.lexi.net

To: koan who wrote (40714)	5/22/2007 12:58:48 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78428

There are very, very simple way to ensure that earthquakes does not rupture tailings dams and also that waste rock does not drain acid and poison the river. These are: 1. mine it underground and put the tailings back underground as fill as they did at Kerr Addison. Yes, the ore is high enough grade for block caving and fill. 80,000 TPD mines ran underground in Montana historically at 0.50% copper. 2. suck the water out of the tailings, and mix the tails evenly with limestone rock, readily available in the area. Even if it the ground heaves, the rock is not going anywhere, it is chemically buffered, and will not flow. 3. pump the tails water thru active carbon which will remove 99.9999% of all metals. 4. separate the higher grade waste crudely and heap leach the waste rock with very dilute acid after crushing it finer, and remove the sulphides pre-emptively. Pass the solution thru active carbon columns. Then stack the rock with limestone and flush it for 2 years. The sulphides would be low enuff that any subsequent drainage from the waste could be ignored. There. 100 million worth of economic environmental solutions, for free. Webster though he was being clever. He was, and perhaps my solutions would have been rejected, but they would have worked. Forever. EC<:-}