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This page provides definitions to project terms frequently used on this website. We encourage you to explore the rest of this website to learn more about the HVC Mine Life Extension Project.
Biodiversity: An abbreviation of biological diversity, biodiversity refers to the variety of life on earth: the different animals, plants and micro-organisms, and the ecosystems of which they are a part.
Engagement: A process of contact, dialogue, and interaction that ensures that all parties of interest are informed and participating in decisions that affect their future.
Groundwater: Water from beneath the earth’s surface that collects or flows in the porous spaces in soil and rock.
Reclamation: The restoration of a site after mining or exploration activity is completed. Reclamation initiatives are used to create diverse environments that are similar to the pre-mining landscape. These landscapes are meant to attract a variety of wildlife species and to function in ways that will sustain biodiversity over time.
Surface water: Water from precipitation and runoff that is not diverted around the operations; includes water inputs from surface waterbodies that may be located within the boundaries of operations.
Tailings: Ground rock that has no economically recoverable mineral content. Tailings are materials rejected from a mill after recoverable valuable minerals have been extracted.
This page provides definitions to project terms frequently used on this website. We encourage you to explore the rest of this website to learn more about the HVC Mine Life Extension Project.
Biodiversity: An abbreviation of biological diversity, biodiversity refers to the variety of life on earth: the different animals, plants and micro-organisms, and the ecosystems of which they are a part.
Engagement: A process of contact, dialogue, and interaction that ensures that all parties of interest are informed and participating in decisions that affect their future.
Groundwater: Water from beneath the earth’s surface that collects or flows in the porous spaces in soil and rock.
Reclamation: The restoration of a site after mining or exploration activity is completed. Reclamation initiatives are used to create diverse environments that are similar to the pre-mining landscape. These landscapes are meant to attract a variety of wildlife species and to function in ways that will sustain biodiversity over time.
Surface water: Water from precipitation and runoff that is not diverted around the operations; includes water inputs from surface waterbodies that may be located within the boundaries of operations.
Tailings: Ground rock that has no economically recoverable mineral content. Tailings are materials rejected from a mill after recoverable valuable minerals have been extracted.
