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Appendices 5-13 - Nautilus Cares - Nautilus Minerals

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3..2 Characterisation of 0.45 !m filtered seawater samples from elutriation<br />

Metals concentration data for the Phase 1 experiment, effect of elutriation time at 6 o C<br />

is shown in <strong>Appendices</strong> 1 and 2 with associated quality control data sets in Appendix<br />

3. Appendix 4 shows the Phase dissolved metals data normalised to ng metal/g of ore.<br />

Phase 1 results showed the metals that were substantially elevated above background<br />

seawater were Co, Cu, Cd, Mn, Pb and Zn. Silver was elevated but was still below<br />

the ANZECC/ARMCANZ (2000) 95% protection level. Figures 2 and 3 show the<br />

concentrations of Co, Cu, Cd, Pb and Zn over the 1,440 minutes of the elutriation<br />

experiments at two different scales to accommodate the relatively higher<br />

concentration of Zn compared to the other metals.<br />

Concentration (ppb)<br />

4500.0<br />

4000.0<br />

3500.0<br />

3000.0<br />

2500.0<br />

2000.0<br />

1500.0<br />

1000.0<br />

500.0<br />

0.0<br />

0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600<br />

Time (min)<br />

Figure 2: Concentration (ppb) of Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn in 0.45 !m filtered<br />

seawater from 1:10 ore:seawater elutriation at 6 o C<br />

Cu<br />

Zn<br />

Cd<br />

Pb<br />

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