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Documentation of Acidic Mining Exploration Drill Cuttings
Chambers & Zamzow — July 2019 Download Report
A record of surface-disposed drill cuttings that produce acid and metals
RESPONSIBLE MINING
Sexton et al - Canada's mines pose transboundary risks - Science 24Apr20.pdf
Canada’s mines pose transboundary risks
Sexton et al — April 2020
Go-NoGo Risk of Catastrophic Consequence - Chambers Jun14.pdf
Go/No-Go Risk of Catastrophic Consequence (Preliminary Assessment)
David M Chambers — June 2014
Framework for Responsible Mining Executive Summary.pdf
Framework for Responsible Mining - Executive Summary
Marta Miranda, David Chambers, and Catherine Coumans — October 2005
Framework for Responsible Mining.pdf
Framework for Responsible Mining - Full Report
Marta Miranda, David Chambers, and Catherine Coumans — October 2005
Framework Espanol - Resumen Ejecutivo.pdf
Marco Básico para una Minería Responsable: Una Guía para la Mejora de Estándares - Resumen Ejecutivo Framework for Responsible Mining - Executive Summary (En Espanol)
Marta Miranda, David Chambers, and Catherine Coumans — October 2005
GENERAL MINING RESEARCH
CSP2 Perpetual Treatment Position Paper - Chambers Aug18.pdf
Perpetual Water Treatment - Position Paper
David Chambers — August 2018
Review of Haitian Capacity and Preparedness - Levit 2Sep13-2.pdf
Mining in Haiti: Review of Haitian Capacity and Preparedness
Stuart M Levit — September 2013
Review of Haitian Capacity and Preparedness - Syntheseetude capacite et preparation - Levit 2Sep13.pdf
L’exploitation minière en Haïti: Étude de la capacité et de réactivité haïtienne - Synthèse (Mining in Haiti: Review of Haitian Capacity and Preparedness - Executive Summary)
Stuart M Levit — September 2013
Long Term Risk of Releasing Potentially Acid Producing Waste Due to Tailings Dam Failure - ICARD 23May12.pdf
Long Term Risk of Releasing Potentially Acid Producing Waste
David M Chambers — May 2012
CIRI Underground Coal Gassification Report - Stratus 27Jan10.pdf
Potential Environmental Impacts of the Proposed CIRI Underground Coal Gasification Project, Western Cook Inlet, Alaska
Prepared for the Center for Science in Public Participation by Stratus Consulting Inc — January 2010
CBM Code in BC - CSP2 - 1.25.05.pdf
Technical Review of the Proposed Code of Practice for the Discharge of Produced Water from Coalbed Gas Operations in British Columbia
Prepared by Tom Myers, Ph.D; David Chambers, Ph.D; and, Amy Crook, M.S. — January 2005
Underwriting Mine Closure Risk - Jan05.pdf
Corporate Ethics Monitor Article The Costs of Mining: Underwriting Mine Closure Risk
David Chambers — January 2005
Fact_Sheets--Trace_Elements_in_Mining_Waste.pdf
Fact Sheets - Trace Elements in Mining Waste (Arsenic, Cadmium, Copper, Cyanide, Lead, Mercury, Selenium, Zinc)
Alexandra Amonette (edited by David Chambers) — December 2004
Environmental Impacts of Sand and Gravel Operations in New Mexico.doc.pdf
Environmental Impacts of Aggregate and Stone Mining New Mexico Case Study
Steve Blodgett (edited by David Chambers) — January 2004
Questa-Molycorp Subsidence Impacts - Blodgett Feb 2002.pdf
Block Caving Impacts - Molycorp Mine & Case Studies
Steve Blodgett — February 2002
Subsidence and Hydrologic Environmental Impacts.pdf
Underground Mining - Subsidence & Hydrology Report
Steve Blodgett & James Kuipers — February 2002
LAD Guidelines.pdf
Land Application Disposal - (LAD) Guidelines Paper
David Chambers — September 2000
FINANCIAL ASSURANCE
Alaska Reclamation Bonding - Sep05.pdf
Alaska Reclamation Bonding (Summary) - September 2005
David Chambers — September 2005
Financail Assurance for Hardrock Mine Cleanup.pdf
Financial Assurance for Hardrock Mine Cleanup
James Kuipers & Sarah Zuzulock — October 2003
MINE / PROJECT SPECIFIC
Cumulative Impacts of Espinar Province Mines - Levit CSP2 3Jul13.pdf
Glencore Xstrata’s Espinar Province Mines: Cumulative Impacts to Human Health and the Environment
Stuart M Levit — July 2013
Groundwater & Surface Water Contamination at the Flambeau Mine - Chambers & Zamzow 5Jun09.pdf
Groundwater & Surface Water Contamination at the Flambeau Mine
David Chambers & Kendra Zamzow — June 2009
CSP2_Comments_Ahafo_South_12_05.pdf
Technical Review - Ahafo South Project (Ghana) Environmental & Social Impact Statement
Stuart Levit & David Chambers — December 2005
Sepon Copper ESIA Comments.pdf
Review of the Technical Aspects of the Sepon Copper Project Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Addendum Volume 2
David Chambers — February 2003
PEBBLE MINE
ZAMZOW & CHAMBERS - POTENTIAL IMPACTS DUE TO MINERAL EXPLORATION - 19JUL19 ENVIRONMENTS-06-00084-2.pdf
Potential Impacts due to Mineral Exploration
Zamzow & Chambers — July 2019
CSP2 PEBBLE DRILL HOLE RECLAMATION - CSP2 3NOV16.pdf
Pebble Drill Hole Reclamation - 2016
Kendra Zamzow & David M Chambers — February 2017
PLP_White_Paper_1_Peer_Review_Comments_Chambers_23Oct12.pdf
Peer Review Comments - PLP White Paper No. 1: Mitigating Risk in the Design and Construction of Tailings Dams in Alaska – Jeremy P. Haile, P.E. and Ken J. Brouwer, P.E., Knight Piésold Ltd., July 20, 2012
David Chambers — October 2012
PLP_White_Paper_2_Peer_Review_Comments_Chambers_23Oct12.pdf
Peer Review Comments - PLP White Paper No. 2: Development of Stable Waste Rock Piles in Alaska, Les Galbraith, Knight Piesold, Vancouver, B.C., July 20, 2012
David Chambers — October 2012
PLP_White_Paper_3_Peer_Review_Comments_Chambers_23Oct12.pdf
Peer Review Comments - PLP White Paper No. 3: Active Metal Mines of the Fraser River Basin and Fish - Case Studies, Oscar Gustafson, Knight Piesold, Vancouver, B.C., July 20, 2012
David Chambers — October 2012
WQR - TNC_Water_Quality_Report_2011 - Final Nov14.pdf
Surface Water Quality near the Pebble Prospect, Southwest Alaska, 2009-2010
Kendra Zamzow — June 2011
Critique of PLP Water Quality Data - Zamzow May11.pdf
Critique of Pebble Limited Partnership Preliminary Water Quality Data for the Pebble Prospect, Alaska
Kendra Zamzow — May 2011
TAILINGS DAM FAILURES
Increasing Number of Tailings Facility Failures - Chambers Oct19.pdf
Increasing Number of Tailings Facility Failures, Navigating the Decade 2020-2029
Chambers — October 2019
Bowker & Chambers - Supercycle - Environments-04-00075 21Oct17.pdf
In the Dark Shadow of the Supercycle Tailings Failure Risk & Public Liability Reach All Time Highs
Lindsay Newland Bowker & David M Chambers — October 2017
Post-MountPolleyTailingsDamSafety.pdf
Post-Mount Polley Tailings Dam Safety in Transboundary British Columbia
David M. Chambers — March 2016
Mt Polley Tailings Dam Failure Report Summary - Chambers rev Aug15.pdf