Case Study: Confronting Media and other Bias against Uranium Exploration and Mining, Nuclear Power, and Associated Environmental Issues
Over the past years, I2M Associates personnel and associates noticed an increase in the number of inaccurate, misleading, and deceptive articles that were produced by various types of media on the subject of nuclear power, uranium exploration and mining, and other associated environmental issues. So did other professionals on nuclear power matters, and especially [...]
Case History: Oilfield Brines for Dust Control Affecting Privates Wells?
Elevated chloride concentrations (>250 mg/l) were reported to the Ohio State Environmental Protection Agency in the early 2000s by a rural resident using groundwater for domestic consumption from a private water well. An adjacent commercial oil and gas pipe yard had spread relatively small volumes of oilfield brines from 1998 through 2000 to control [...]
Case History: Independent Assessment of In-Situ Uranium Resources
Brooks County, Texas – In-Situ Uranium Solution Mining and Processing: I2M Associates, LLC was engaged in 2012 to conduct a comprehensive independent evaluation of the uranium production system in operation for the purpose of preparing a NI 43-101 report for the client and the Vancouver Stock Exchange and other exchanges. This investigation included a [...]
Case History: Independent Assessment of MUD Water Well System
I2M personnel were engaged to assess the possible causes of the decline in production of a high-capacity water well of a municipal utility district in the northern suburbs of Houston, Texas. Via an in-well video survey, an advanced stage of iron bacteria had grown up and down the slotted intakes of the well casing [...]
Case History: DOE-Oak Ridge Investigations of Groundwater
In 1988, groundwater contaminated with trichloroethene (TCE) and technetium-99 (Tc-99) were identified in samples collected from residential water wells withdrawing groundwater from the Regional Gravel Aquifer (RGA) north of the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PGDP) facility. In 2012, DOE requested that Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), managing contractor of Oak Ridge Institute for Science [...]
Case History: Remediation of Heavy Metals & Residual Explosives
Safe, Effective Cleanup Beats Deadline & Saves $1.2 Million for Land Developer Once part of an explosives manufacturing facility dating back to the early 1900s, the land had gone unused since the plant closed. Many decades later, Weyerhaeuser purchased the site as part of a 3,300-acre tract intended for a mixed-use real estate project. [...]
Case History: Soil Remediation & Groundwater Investigations
Jeff King, P.G., CEO of Pacific Environmental Remediation Corporation (PERC) and Founder of I2M Associates, LLC, provided project management via RI-FS preparation and approval by State for removal of the sediment below existing office buildings and associated shallow materials at a 5-acre State Superfund Site. The project consisted of removal of previous plant debris, sediment [...]
Case History: Queensland, Australia – Magnetite Mine Development License Application Preparation
I2M Associates was selected by an Australian mining company to prepare an MDL application to be submitted to the Queensland government in preparation for mining. I2M personnel were relocated to Townsville, Queensland to coordinate and assemble the permit application. The process required 8 months in-country meeting with governmental regulatory agencies, researching requirements, and assembling [...]
Case History: Hydrogeological Investigations of Lignite Beds
Monroe County, Louisiana – I2M personnel were engaged to conduct a comprehensive groundwater flow-net analysis of the future mining blocks to determine areas of excess pore pressure causing lignite bed elevation movement as overburden was removed in advance of bucket-wheel mining of lignite. This activity was conducted for the purpose of minimizing mining of underclay [...]
Case History: Open-Pit Gold-Silver Mining / Heap-Leach Recovery Project
Eureka County, Nevada – I2M personnel acquired property on behalf of a consortium of Norwegian-Italian-Swiss investor groups and served as mine management consultants to the mine owners, conducting extensive drilling and coring, designing the mine plan, 9-mile haul road from mine to pads designed with a leaky-pipe cyanide leach system in series with an electrolytic recovery [...]
Case History: Independent Evaluation of Gold and Silver Mines, Processing Plant and Environmental Conditions
Đồi Bù District, Hòa Bình Region SW of Hanoi – I2M conducted onsite independent investigations of operational gold and silver mines consisting of sampling ore working face via adits extending up to 2,500 feet for the purpose of determining if the ore deposits being produced in the two mines visited could support expanded production. Also [...]
Case History: Tailings Containing Precious Metal Resources
Case History: Large Tailings Containing Precious Metal Resources, Australia Tasmania, Australia, Large Tailings Lake Remediation with Significant Gold and Silver: Provided independent assessment of mine tailing from a large base- and precious metal mine to remediate some 11 million tonnes of waste after zinc and lead to be removed by multi-stage processing. The tailings consist of [...]
