The management system has been designed for all of them, integrating in many cases the use of acidic water stored in old sludge ponds or abandoned mine cuttings and using it as the main source of supply for the ore processing plant.open pits
As part of the water management system, and for some of the mentioned projects, effluent treatment systems have been designed for discharge into the natural environment, reuse as process water, or recovery of dissolved metals, through: