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“ Mine-for-closure has always been a part of our plan and various parts of the facility were combined into that methodology ,” says Dave Cook , general manger of Carlota .
According to the general manager , the infrastructure at the mine was built with the intentions it would be closed in the format of the regulation .
“ One of the specifications was a partial back fill in lieu of building extra waste dumps . Other plans included visual issues and waste dump reclamation , including putting a cover and exclusionary capping on our leach pad .”
As the life of the mine winds down ,
the company is extremely proud of the work it ’ s done at the site .
“ We have an opportunity to set a standard that will serve the company well because as we permit other facilities , it ’ s important to be able to say we ’ ve done it before and that we can be successful ,” says Cook .
“ We ’ re going to have our challenges as we close things but we ’ re going to be responsible and what we say we ’ ll do in our permit documents , we ’ re going to do .”
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