(MERAF) for the Base Metals Smelting Sector - CCME

In addition to these measures, Hatch Associates has estimated that a 10%
reduction in emissions was feasible from the facilities not analyzed. This 10%
reduction for the “Rest of Sector” is assumed to be for the total releases for all
the facilities not specifically identified, not for each individual facility
4.4.7. Summary of Capital Costs
The capital costs of release reductions were estimated in Hatch Associates’
report, Review of Environmental Releases for the Base Metals Smelting
Sector 164 . This report was reviewed by the Base Metals Environmental Technical
Advisory Group (BETAG) and there is general agreement on the overall
correctness of the estimates.
Table 79 presents a summary of the capital costs discussed above.
Table 79: Capital Cost Estimates
Site Option for Reduction By 2008 Option for Reduction By 2015
Hudson Bay Mining
and Smelting
Inco Thompson
Falconbridge Kidd
Falconbridge Sudbury
Inco Copper Cliff
Noranda Horne
Incremental improvements to
gas handling system
Cost: $30 to 60 million
Improvements to gas handling
system
Cost: $20 to 70 million
Wet scrubbing technology or
High Temperature Particulate
Removal
Cost: $6 to 20 million
Wet scrubbing technology
Cost: $50 to 80 million
Wet scrubbing of Fluid Bed
Roaster off-gas
Cost: $60 to 80 million
Increasing percentage of matte
processed through the Noranda
continuous converter, expansion
of the acid plant and connection
of Peirce-Smith converters to
acid plant
Cost: $20 to 50 million
Installation of hydrometallurgical
process*
Cost: $500 to 800 million
Smelter modernization and acid
plant
Cost: $500 to 700 million
No major changes beyond 2008
No major changes beyond 2008
Continuous converting
technology*
Cost: $200 to 350 million
No major changes beyond 2008
164 Hatch Associates, Review of Environmental Releases for the Base Metals Smelting Sector,
prepared for Environment Canada, dated November 2000
184