Is This The Solution to 237,000 tonnes of Arsenic?
Garth Wallbridge, LL.B., ICD.D, CIC.C
Lawyer, businessman and corporate director.
Giant Mine in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada sits on the edge of Great Slave Lake. The lake is the tenth largest freshwater lake in the World and is a real gem in a much polluted World.
A scientist has come up with a way, proven, but not just yet in a large scale industrial setting, to clean up 237,000 tonnes of arsenic buried underground in the old mine workings.
The legacy of this mine may change from being, today, arguably the biggest environmental disaster waiting to happen in Canada, to a clean, safe, post-industrial site.
For my children and grandchildren and for the many generations to come I sure hope that this method can be scaled up.
Read Walter Strong's article here:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/giant-mine-arsenic-process-1.4418862
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7 年From what I understand you'd have to get the arsenic out and process it above ground. The problem with that is that you can never get 100% of it out. Even if you can get 98% of it out, the remaining 2% will require water treatment for hundreds and hundreds of years. But who says they couldn't try this on one of the smaller chambers.