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Water in Mining 2009

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When Best Water Use Efficiency is Not Enough, What Can the Mining Industry Do?

Water is required as a key strategic resource in most mining and metallurgical processes and, in some countries, it has become a limiting supply for the development of mining activity. During the last years, mining industry efforts have been successfully focused on water use efficiency in the different processes. However, these efforts will not be sufficient to compensate for the growing demand of mining products and the decrease of ore grades. New efforts should be oriented to the search for alternative water supplies such as sea water, with or without desalinisation, or water harvesting._x000D_
But to survive this growing pressure and to get a social licence to operate, the mining industry can also assume a proactive attitude and pursue a prominent role in water management at regional and local scale. This paper reviews some of these emerging issues, particularly in the context of the Chilean copper industry._x000D_
FORMAL CITATION:Wiertz, J V. When best water use efficiency is not enough, what can the mining industry do? in Proceedings Water in Mining 2009, pp 13-16 (The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Melbourne).
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