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Presentation of the FA and MTD-Water Protection Measures, Bucim |
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 On February 12, 2009 in the premises of Bucim Mine, Mr. Botio Tabakov, BT Engineering General Manager, presented the Feasibility Assessment and Main Technical Design for Water Protection Measures - Bucim Mine. This presentation meeting was organized by UNDP Hot Spots Project and hosted by Bucim Management.
The objective of this meeting was presentation and explanation of
the key findings of the design in general and the Variant 2.II as a
technical solution for water protection measures/water management in
particular. This variant includes extraction of copper from the waste
water by the process refered to as "sorption" which makes it
economically viable and self sustainable, and has been identified as
the most appropriate variant both from UNDP Hot Spots and Bucim Mine Management .
However,
it was noted that appart from being self-sustainable, this variant is
the most expensive one and the shortage of funds of approx. 1.3 million
euros has to be bridged. In this regard, Mr. Vladimir Stavric, UNDP Hot
Spots National Coordinator added that despite of being expensive, the
additional investment of 1.3 mill. euros would be justified in several
years, as the variant provides opportunity for having the water management in line with the Macedonian legislation, and regarding the global market price of copper per ton, gaining benefit from copper extraction to, at least, sustain the operation of the installation. Otherwise, the annual expenses for repumping the water into the system would be approximately 80.000 EUR.
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