Minerals And Mining (Health, Safety And Technical Regulations, 2012) (L.I. 2182)Regulation 241The manager of a processing plant shall in relation to that plant(a) develop and maintain a detailed and comprehensive water management program to prevent unintentional releases including maintaining adequate freeboard on tailings dam complexes;(b) cause to be conducted annual cyanide environmental audits and take appropriate action where required;(c) develop cyanide balance for each metallurgical treatment facility in order to establish consumption trends of cyanide by the various processes;(d) cause to be performed routine pulp, solid and solution flows on identified unit processes;(e) establish an effective surface water quality-monitoring programme in which daily monitoring is conducted at each medium to high environmental risk area including water dams that have the potential to overflow into a clean water catchment or beyond mine boundaries and conducting monthly monitoring at low risk areas including fresh water dams and springs;(f) establish an effective groundwater quality-monitoring programme; and(g) establish an effective tailings dam monitoring programme in which routine monitoring is conducted at penstock decants, penstock inlets, return water systems and underdrains. |
Procedures to FollowNot Avaiable |
Responsible InstitutionMinerals Commission
36 Second Cantonments Cl, Accra |
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