MMEA (The Measurement, Monitoring and Environmental Efficiency Assessment) research program final seminar presentation by Sustainable development manager Anita Alajoutsijärvi, Agnico Eagle Mines

1. MMEA FINAL SEMINAR
BIOREX, HELSINKI, NOV 26, 2015
Monitoring and Risk Management
A mining company perspective
Anita Alajoutsijärvi
Sustainable Development Mgr
Agnico Eagle Finland Oy, Kittilä Mine
anita.alajoutsijarvi@agnicoeagle.com

2. CONTENTS…
- ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, ECONOMICAL ACCEPTANCE
- ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS AND CHALLENGES
- PROCESS RELATED RISKS
- EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS
- WHAT IS / SHOULD BE THE MONITORING AND RISK MANAGEMENT…

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MONITORING AND RISK MANAGEMENT – A MINING COMPANY PERSPECTIVE
Mining – risks and challenges - to be minimised, if can not be
eliminated…
Water
Air
Soil
Social
acceptance
Economical
acceptance
Environmental
acceptance
…also…
Post
closure

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Environmental Risks – Challenges (you can not remove the mines…)
- Depending on ore type, site location, process type -
Post Operational
Phase - Obligations
- Landscaping
- Monitoring,
drainage water
pumping?
- long term effects?
Process,
Mine drainage, Waste rock land
fill, Seepage, Sanitary,
Ground, Surface…waters
- Water balance
- Water treatment 
applicable treatment?
Air
emissions
- Particles
- NOx, SOx,,,
- Odor gases
Soil
- Passive
treatment/Wetlands
- Harmful substances’
accumulation?
Water
MONITORING AND RISK MANAGEMENT – A MINING COMPANY
PERSPECTIVE

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Process related risks
- Depending on ore/process type – technical challenges
- Complicated process – importance of process optimisation, utilisation of
automation, chemicals dosage: quantity, quality etc.
- Measuring of right parameters with appropriate instruments and
optimised frequency?
- On line measurements – enough, besides manual and lab measurements?
- Sampling and sampling points enough, along the production process –
assay data of internal, external labs
- Maintenance – service, calibration – also preventive!
- Process waste management
- Process knowledge – experienced, specialised employees – skilled people
enough? And trained?!
 All affecting the production efficiency
the environmental performance
the social acceptability
MONITORING AND RISK MANAGEMENT – A MINING COMPANY PERSPECTIVE

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External Environmental risks
caused by
- weather conditions
- climate change
• Temperature
• Precipitation
• Floods?
Predictive diagram for the river water level, 1 a (SYKE)
Mean
Max
Min
MONITORING AND RISK MANAGEMENT – A MINING COMPANY PERSPECTIVE

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Environmental risks and challenges
Risks now and in the near future – quite easy to
identify
 Preventive actions successful almost always
Risks in longer term – not that easy to identify
 Leading very likely to unexpected situations,
Preventive actions may not be successful
Post operational time: even more difficult…!
In Mining the longer term effects play nowadays
even a bigger role! All the way the right data and
observations should be collected.
MONITORING AND RISK MANAGEMENT – A MINING COMPANY PERSPECTIVE

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What is/should be the monitoring and risk management?
and delivering
= Dynamic, Early Risk Management System,
Giving reliable forecasts
At the moment: ’Still way to go’, things should be focused on
with longer time perspective…
There are available tools, all the data just to be utilised more.
Target: A monitoring system applicable in mining environment, giving a possibility to
combine data and parameters from many different sources (environment, process,
laboratory – internal and external,,,,) according to the needs
MONITORING AND RISK MANAGEMENT – A MINING COMPANY PERSPECTIVE
 Generated information (e.g. by correlations) of key parameters, indicating possible
coming issues/anomalies in process, emissions etc. and also and warning about
unexpected situations – the earlier the better, the easier the better!
 to be reacted on early enough
 to be taken into account in decision making  to minimise the risks

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Investing on Early Warning and taking less risks…
OR
Savings on costs, resources, but taking more risks… Maybe you
actually were not saving!
 Which one you choose?
’To become a winner, you should be two steps ahead!’
MONITORING AND RISK MANAGEMENT IN MINING INDUSTRY

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