Regions: Kitikmeot, Nunavut
Tags: mining, environmental monitoring, mining impacts, sediment chemistry, sedimentology, benthic invertebrates, species diversity, species abundance
| Principal Investigator: | d'Entremont, Andre (3) |
| Licence Number: | 10198 |
| Organization: | Environmental Protection, Environment Canada |
| Licensed Year(s): |
1991
1990
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| Issued: | Jan 01, 1990 |
| Project Team: | E. Porter; S. Heinze-Milne; S. Lundvall; |
Objective(s): To assess the effectiveness of environmental effects monitoring methods at N.W.T. mines; to determine the effectiveness of the regulatory controls on tailings effluent disposal at protecting the receiving environment;
Project Description: A sampling program will be undertaken where sediment and benthic organisms will be collected at six sites sampled in 1985. The samples will be analysed to determine if any statistically significant changes in the sediment chemistry and species diversity and abundance have occurred since the mine began operation in 1985.
