| Title | Geoenvironmental characteristics of gold and critical metal deposits / Caractéristiques géo-environnementales de l'activité aurifère et des dépôts de métaux critiques |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
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| Author | Parsons, M |
| Source | Public presentations of May 21st, 2019: Environmental Geoscience Program, current status of research projects (phase 2014-2019); by Jacob, N; Parsons, M; Rivard, C; Savard, M M; Larmagnat, S; Outridge, P M; White, D; Kao, H; Lintern, G; Geological Survey of Canada, Scientific Presentation 104, 2019 p. 5-18, https://doi.org/10.4095/314918  Open Access |
| Year | 2019 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English; French |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is contained in Public presentations of May
21st, 2019: Environmental Geoscience Program, current status of research projects (phase 2014-2019) |
| File format | pdf (Adobe® Reader®) |
| Province | Quebec; Northwest Territories |
| NTS | 31G/08; 75L; 75M; 76D; 85I; 85J; 85O; 85P; 86A; 86B |
| Area | Oka; Yellowknife; Great Slave Lake |
| Lat/Long WENS | -74.5000 -74.0000 45.5000 45.2500 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -116.0000 -110.0000 65.0000 62.0000 |
| Subjects | environmental geology; geochemistry; mineralogy; paleontology; surficial geology/geomorphology; economic geology; Nature and Environment; Science and Technology; Government and Politics; Economics and
Industry; environmental studies; environmental impacts; mining; mine waste products; tailings; slag; mineral deposits; metals; gold; niobium; carbonatites; limnology; trace element geochemistry; radionuclides; micropaleontology; climate; transport
mechanisms; pollutants; arsenic geochemistry; lake sediment geochemistry; surface waters; water geochemistry; carbon geochemistry; permafrost; ground ice; wetlands; thorium geochemistry; uranium geochemistry; modelling; Environmental Geoscience
Program (EGP); St. Lawrence Columbium (SLC) Mine; Tundra Mine; Slave Geological Province; Environmental impact assessment; Waste water; Decision making; Regulation; Traditional Knowledge; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous culture; environmental baseline
studies; cumulative effects; Climate change |
| Illustrations | photographs; satellite images; profiles; plots; location maps; geoscientific sketch maps; schematic representations; photomicrographs |
| Program | Environmental
Geoscience Program Management |
| Released | 2019 10 10 |
| Abstract | The Critical Metals Activity used detailed geochemical, mineralogical, and limnological methods to characterize processes controlling the mobility of trace elements and radionuclides in mine wastes and
waters at the abandoned St. Lawrence Columbium (SLC) Mine in Oka, Quebec. This mine operated from 1961 to 1976 and at the time was one of the largest niobium (Nb) producers in the world. Geologically, the SLC Mine is very similar to several other
carbonatite-hosted mineral deposits across Canada that are being considered for mining of elements used in green energy and high-tech applications, including Nb and rare earth elements (REE). These studies have generated new geoscience knowledge on
the potential environmental impacts of mining critical metals and have been used by the Québec Ministère de l'Energie et des Ressources Naturelles (MERN) to help guide remediation decisions for the SLC Mine site. The results will also help industry
and regulators to improve environmental predictions for future Nb- and REE-mining projects and to support the development of new environmental guidelines.
The Northern Baselines (Geoscience Tools for Environmental Assessment of Metal Mining)
Activity used a multidisciplinary geochemical, paleolimnological, micropaleontological, and traditional knowledge approach to produce new geoscience knowledge on baseline geochemistry and cumulative impacts of geogenic and anthropogenic processes,
particularly climate variability, on the transport and fate of metal(loid)s in mineralized regions of northern Canada. New geoscience knowledge on the role of climate variability on speciation of arsenic in porewater and sediments, and the seasonal
cycling of metalloids between surface waters and sediments has implications for Environmental Assessment, remediation of contaminated sites, including Crown lands, and new development. The activity also generated new knowledge on the impacts of 21st
century climate change on long-term carbon dynamics in permafrost wetlands, important for understanding feedback mechanisms and global carbon cycling. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
This scientific document is a wrap up of the research done in the Environmental Geoscience Program from 2014 to 2019. This document explain the science
behind the program over the past 5 years covering a range of state of the art science in critical metal deposits, geoscience tools, shale gas and groundwater, oil sands, fluid in carbonates, mercury, geological storage of carbon, induced seismicity
and dredge disposal. All the sciences done under this program contribute to provincial regulations as well as environmental assessments to ensure the safety and security of Canadians and to their environment. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 314918 |
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