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Waste Problems Relative to Mining and Milling of Molybdenum ROSHAN B. BHAPPU, Senior Metallurgist New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources JOHNH. FAIR, Head Liquid Waste Section JOHNR. WRIGHT, Chief Water and Liquid Waste Division Department of Public Health State of New Mexico Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 INTRODUCTION The State of New Mexico has been confronted with, and has solved, an unusual industrial waste problem. This problem was unusual because some of the more difficult aspects of the problem involved the deep and intense feelings of large groups of people. Although this presentation will be given from the technical point of view of an engineer, it is felt that the problem will bring to light the entire spectrum of water pollution; its control, the competition for water use by different interests, and legislation dealing with water use. Perhaps a little of the background about New Mexico will enable one to understand how the industrial waste problem developed. New Mexico, fifth largest state, is also one of our most thinly populated states, although some of the earliest settlements by Europeans in what is now the United States occurred in New Mexico, vast areas of the state remain a primeval wilderness. Many people, from all over the United States, look upon this New Mexico wilderness as a haven from our complex civilization. New Mexico is a producer of the raw materials, especially metals and minerals, so necessary to our industrial civilization. Records shows that nearly nine billion dollars worth of raw materials has been extracted from New Mexico to enrich the entire nation, and to sustain our country in times of both war and peace. The locality of our industrial waste problem brought into direct confrontation two different interest groups. One of these groups is a mining industry, while the other group consists of conservationists and sportsmen. The problem, in essence, is that of a large mining operation located in one of the wildest and most beautiful parts of New Mexico. The solution to this problem is made more difficult because the final effluent from the mining and milling operation must be discharged into the Red River, which is a well known trout stream. A further complication is that the point of discharge is about two miles upstream of the state's largest trout hatchery which uses part of the Red River as rearing water for the trout. The Molybdenum Corporation of America, known as "Molycorp" is mining and milling approximately 10, 000 tons of ore a day to recover molybdenum, a - 575 -
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Purdue Identification Number | ETRIWC196751 |
Title | Waste problems relative to the mining and milling of molybdenum |
Author |
Bhappu, Roshan B. Fair, John H. Wright, John R. |
Date of Original | 1967 |
Conference Title | Proceedings of the 22nd Industrial Waste Conference |
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Extent of Original | p. 575-592 |
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Engineering extension series no. 129 Engineering bulletin v. 52, no. 3 |
Collection Title | Engineering Technical Reports Collection, Purdue University |
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Title | page 575 |
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Transcript | Waste Problems Relative to Mining and Milling of Molybdenum ROSHAN B. BHAPPU, Senior Metallurgist New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources JOHNH. FAIR, Head Liquid Waste Section JOHNR. WRIGHT, Chief Water and Liquid Waste Division Department of Public Health State of New Mexico Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 INTRODUCTION The State of New Mexico has been confronted with, and has solved, an unusual industrial waste problem. This problem was unusual because some of the more difficult aspects of the problem involved the deep and intense feelings of large groups of people. Although this presentation will be given from the technical point of view of an engineer, it is felt that the problem will bring to light the entire spectrum of water pollution; its control, the competition for water use by different interests, and legislation dealing with water use. Perhaps a little of the background about New Mexico will enable one to understand how the industrial waste problem developed. New Mexico, fifth largest state, is also one of our most thinly populated states, although some of the earliest settlements by Europeans in what is now the United States occurred in New Mexico, vast areas of the state remain a primeval wilderness. Many people, from all over the United States, look upon this New Mexico wilderness as a haven from our complex civilization. New Mexico is a producer of the raw materials, especially metals and minerals, so necessary to our industrial civilization. Records shows that nearly nine billion dollars worth of raw materials has been extracted from New Mexico to enrich the entire nation, and to sustain our country in times of both war and peace. The locality of our industrial waste problem brought into direct confrontation two different interest groups. One of these groups is a mining industry, while the other group consists of conservationists and sportsmen. The problem, in essence, is that of a large mining operation located in one of the wildest and most beautiful parts of New Mexico. The solution to this problem is made more difficult because the final effluent from the mining and milling operation must be discharged into the Red River, which is a well known trout stream. A further complication is that the point of discharge is about two miles upstream of the state's largest trout hatchery which uses part of the Red River as rearing water for the trout. The Molybdenum Corporation of America, known as "Molycorp" is mining and milling approximately 10, 000 tons of ore a day to recover molybdenum, a - 575 - |
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