Iduapriem Mine faces a climate with high seasonal temperature variations and the alternation of dry and wet periods. When seasonal patterns provide very high rainfall for only a few months, water must be managed cautiously to avoid flooding of operations which could lead to water contamination and potential health and safety issues.
Moreover, gold extraction in particular requires the use of cyanide, a hazardous material used to dissolve and separate gold from ore.
Veolia provides the best management and operational expertise to ensure proper water treatment and discharge compliant with the Ghana EPA effluent discharge requirements. Managing water responsibly and ensuring that adverse impacts on local and regional water resources are avoided (particularly cyanide issue) is key to a successful water management in the mining sector. That’s why it is important to collaborate with a reliable partner.
Solution:
- Operations and maintenance (O&M) contract of the existing water treatment facility since July 1st, 2014
- Optimization of the whole operations on site including a two stage water treatment process that consists of a Primary Settler coupled to an ozonation process and a Reverse Osmosis (RO) stage
Customer benefits:
- Trusted partnership through a local presence and a strong commitment to Africa
- Transparent project management based on the various contracting methods
- Managing water responsibly and ensuring that discharged water is compliant with the Ghana EPA effluent discharge requirements
- Optimization of the whole operations on site with a two stage water treatment process
2-year
O&M contract
2-stage water treatment process
July 1, 2014:
Creation of Veolia Ghana Limited