MANAGEMENT

Deep sea tailings success

A SEVEN-year monitoring program of PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara’s deep sea tailings management at its Batu Hijau copper-gold project in Indonesia has shown no negative environmental impacts – perhaps an encouraging sign as Nautilus begins seafloor exploration activities in the Solomon Islands to support its Solwara 1 project.

Marion Lopez
Monitoring of deep sea tailings  at the Batu Hijau project in Indonesia has shown no negative environmental impacts.

Monitoring of deep sea tailings at the Batu Hijau project in Indonesia has shown no negative environmental impacts.

The Independent Scientific Panel, which comprises PT Newmont staff and government officials, presented its findings on the 4000m deep tailings in the Lombok basin earlier this month. Since monitoring...

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