Milling operations were suspended for three days by Gibraltar Mines (TSE) at its copper mine near Williams Lake, B.C., because of environmental concerns over excessive runoff water. Unseasonably high amounts of rainfall in British Columbia this month resulted in runoff water taxing the operation’s treatment facilities. By shutting down milling operations, excess runoff water could be treated at the mill.
Art Brown, mine manager, noted that normal operations have resumed at the mill now that the runoff has reached manageable levels.
Brown stressed that there was no discharge of untreated water into the environment.
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