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Lead - Air EPI 1.2 1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0 Teck Cominco Hudson Bay Inco-Thompson Falconbridge - Kidd Falconbridge - Sudbury Ino - Copper Cliff Noranda - Horne Noranda - CCR Noranda - CEZ Noranda - Gaspé Noranda - Brunswick FACILITY PRODUCTION RATE (tonnes) 2000 AIR RELEASES (tonnes) Teck Cominco 364,200 6.68 0.02 Sheritt N/A N/A N/A Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting 153,900 166.87 1.08 Inco - Thompson 49,441 N/A N/A Falconbridge - Kidd 264,361 29.56 0.11 Falconbridge - Sudbury 64,391 3.5 0.05 Inco - Copper Cliff 216,000 138.02 0.64 Inco - Portcolborne 1,472 N/A N/A Noranda - Horne 182,352 84.7 0.46 Noranda - CCR 314,600 0.67 0.002 Noranda - CEZ 263,112 0.0 0.00 Noranda - Gaspé 115,531 19.5 0.17 Noranda - Brunswick 105,000 13.89 0.13 EPI (kg/t) Figure 33: 2000 Lead - Air Emission Performance Indicator 116
Mercury- Air EPI 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Teck Cominco Hudson Bay Inco-Thompson Falconbridge - Kidd Falconbridge - Sudbury Ino - Copper Cliff Noranda - Horne Noranda - CCR Noranda - CEZ Noranda - Gaspé Noranda - Brunswick FACILITY PRODUCTION RATE (tonnes) 2000 AIR RELEASES (tonnes) Teck Cominco 364,200 0.15 0.41 Sheritt N/A N/A N/A Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting 153,900 1.266 8.22 Inco - Thompson 49,441 0.003 0.06 Falconbridge - Kidd 264,361 N/A N/A Falconbridge - Sudbury 64,391 N/A N/A Inco - Copper Cliff 216,000 0.002 0.01 Inco - Portcolborne 1,472 N/A N/A Noranda - Horne 182,352 0.33 1.81 Noranda - CCR 314,600 N/A N/A Noranda - CEZ 263,112 0.0 0.00 Noranda - Gaspé 115,531 0.052 4.50 Noranda - Brunswick 105,000 0.076 7.24 EPI (g/t) Figure 34: 2000 Mercury - Air Emission Performance Indicator 117
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FINAL REPORT Multi-pollutant Emissi
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Acknowledgments The principal autho
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Summary The purpose of the report i
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• Recommendations to address info
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• The Minerals and Metals Foundat
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The next series of tables illustrat
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1,800.00 1,600.00 1,400.00 1,200.00
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S.4 Current emission management pra
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− The EPA has started developing
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T.1 Technical Options for Emission
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The predicted future releases and t
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Noranda Gaspé Rest of Sector** Sit
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Recommendation #3 It is also recomm
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2.4.8. Leaching ...................
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4.1.11.6. Mercury..................
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Figure 35: 2000 Nickel - Air Emissi
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Table 34: World Bank Guidelines for
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1. Introduction The purpose of the
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strong surrogate for fine particles
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• These sectors are common to mos
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(a) have or may have an immediate o
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2. INDUSTRY PROFILE 2.1. Sector Def
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2.3. Base Metals Smelting Processes
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2.3.1. Pretreatment Pretreatment of
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Metallic impurities either dissolve
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2.4. Environmental Concerns 29 The
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sulphur dioxide in the off-gases th
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2.5. Canadian Base Metals Smelters
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ammonium sulphate fertilizers. The
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The copper smelter uses pyrometallu
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copper, zinc, cadmium and indium, a
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2.6.6.2. Noranda Inc., Division CEZ
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2.7. Key Industrial Associations Ex
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In terms of tonnage, zinc ranks fir
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Table 4: Canadian Base Metals Expor
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ased 62 pricing system. In response
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The LME has a multi-tiered membersh
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The BMSS IT held ten meetings betwe
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3.1.1.2. Smelters Emissions Testing
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achieve their commitments, are publ
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All the companies mentioned in this
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emoved for processing in the Copper
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Lead Concentrate Zinc Residue Lead
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3.2.2. Sherritt International Corpo
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3.2.2.5. Cobalt conversion and redu
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Figure 4: Sherritt Metals Refinery
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The blister copper is then treated
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Figure 6: Hudson Bay Mining and Sme
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Figure 7: Inco Thompson Nickel Smel
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Page 105 and 106: electrostatic precipitator dust fro
Page 107 and 108: Figure 10: Falconbridge Kidd Copper
Page 109 and 110: 3.2.6. Falconbridge, Sudbury Divisi
Page 111 and 112: Figure 12: Falconbridge Sudbury Nic
Page 113 and 114: from the fluid bed roasters are tre
Page 115 and 116: Figure 14: Inco Copper Cliff Nickel
Page 117 and 118: 3.2.8. Inco Port Colborne 87 Figure
Page 119 and 120: 3.2.9. Noranda Inc., Horne Smelter,
Page 121 and 122: Figure 17: Noranda Horne Copper Sme
Page 123 and 124: Figure 18: Noranda CEZ Zinc Plant T
Page 125 and 126: Fugitive emissions from the TBRC op
Page 127 and 128: 3.2.12. Noranda Inc., Division Mine
Page 129 and 130: Figure 20: Noranda Gaspé Copper Sm
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Page 135 and 136: Table 6: Historical Trends of Total
Page 137 and 138: Table 8: Historical Trends of Arsen
Page 139 and 140: Table 10: Historical Trends of Lead
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Page 147 and 148: Table 13: Releases of Dioxins and F
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Page 151 and 152: Sulphur Dioxide - Air EPI 4500 4000
Page 153: Cadium - Air EPI 0.2 0.15 0.1 0.05
Page 157 and 158: 4. CURRENT EMISSION MANAGEMENT PRAC
Page 159 and 160: The “Alberta Ambient Air Quality
Page 161 and 162: 4.1.9. New Brunswick New Brunswick
Page 163 and 164: 4.1.11.1. Particulate Matter Table
Page 165 and 166: Table 15: Canadian Ambient Particul
Page 167 and 168: Sulphur Dioxide Releases from Coppe
Page 169 and 170: 4.1.11.3. Arsenic Table 18 shows th
Page 171 and 172: 4.1.11.5. Lead Table 22 shows the C
Page 173 and 174: 4.1.11.6. Mercury Table 24 shows th
Page 175 and 176: 4.1.11.7. Nickel Table 26 shows the
Page 177 and 178: New Source Performance Standards (N
Page 179 and 180: Table 31: US National Emission Stan
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Page 183 and 184: Table 34: World Bank Guidelines for
Page 185 and 186: 4.2.4. Australia Air quality is con
Page 187 and 188: Table 39: Australia/New South Wales
Page 189 and 190: 4.2.5. Japan Environmental quality
Page 191 and 192: Sulphur dioxide, particulate matter
Page 193 and 194: Table 47: Germany Particulate Matte
Page 195 and 196: Table 51: The Netherlands Sulphur D
Page 197 and 198: Table 53: France Particulate Matter
Page 199 and 200: The Environment Protection (Prescri
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4.3. Best Available Techniques for
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4.4. Options and Preliminary Cost E
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plant. It would be possible to inst
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4.4.2. Inco Limited, Thompson Divis
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4.4.3. Falconbridge, Sudbury Divisi
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4.4.4. Inco Limited, Sudbury/Copper
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4.4.5. Noranda Inc., Horne Smelter,
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4.4.6. Noranda Inc., Division Mines
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Table 78: Technical Options for Emi
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Site Option for Reduction By 2008 O
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Site Option for Reduction By 2008 O
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Noranda Horne Site Option for Reduc
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5. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
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Appendix A: Health and Environmenta
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List of Acronyms AAQ AAQC ARET BACT
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UN/ECE URL USEPA VCR VOC United Nat
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at the anode and selectively plates
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Sinter: Slag: Slag cleaning: Top Bl
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