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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Language: | English |
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2009
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/8707 |