Closure spillway for the plantsite tailings dam, Quintette Operating Corporation

The Quintette mine was a large open pit coal mine in Northeastern BC which produced 65 million tonnes of high quality metallurgical coal from 1983 until its closure in 2000. The tailings dam at the mine is up to 50 meters high, and retains approximately 11 million cubic meters of tailings. A spillw...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sharman, Kevin
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/8707