Metal and Diamond Mining Effluent Regulations — 1
l as any cleared or disturbed area that is adjacent to such a work or undertaking. It includes any work or undertaking, such as a smelter, pelletizing plant, sintering plant, refinery or acid plant, if its effluent is combined with the effluent from a mining, milling or hydrometallurgical activity whose purpose is to produce a metal or a metal concentrate or an ore from which a metal or a metal concentrate may be produced. ( mine de métaux ) milling means any of the following activities for the purpose of producing a diamond, metal or metal concentrate: (a) the crushing or grinding of ore or kimberlite; (b) the processing of uranium ore or uranium enriched solution; or (c) the processing of tailings. ( préparation du minerai ) milling facility effluent means tailing slurries, heap leaching effluent, solution mining effluent and all other effluent deposited from a milling facility. ( effluent d’installations de préparation du minerai ) mine [Repealed, SOR/2018-99, s. 2] mine under development [Repealed, SOR/2018-99, s. 2] mine water effluent means, in respect of mining activities, water that is pumped from or flows out of any underground works, solution chambers or open pits. ( effluent d’eau de mine ) monthly mean concentration means the average value of the concentrations measured in all composite or grab samples collected from each final discharge point during each month when a deleterious substance is deposited. ( concentration moyenne mensuelle ) new mine [Repealed, SOR/2018-99, s. 2] operations area [Repealed, SOR/2018-99, s. 2] operator means any person who operates, has control or custody of or is in charge of a mine. ( exploitant ) placer mining means a mining operation that extracts minerals or metals from stream sediments by gravity or magnetic separation. ( exploitation des placers ) recognized closed mine [Repealed, SOR/2018-99, s. 2] Reference Method EPS 1/RM/10 means Biological Test Method: Reference Method for Determining Acute Lethality Using Threespine Stickleback , published in December 2017 by the Department of the Environment, as amended from time to time. ( méthode de référence SPE 1/RM/10 ) Reference Method EPS 1/RM/13 means Biological Test Method: Reference Method for Determining Acute Lethality of Effluents to Rainbow Trout (Reference Method EPS 1/RM/13), July 1990, published by the Department of the Environment, as amended in December 2000, and as may be further amended from time to time. ( méthode de référence SPE 1/RM/13 ) Reference Method EPS 1/RM/14 means Biological Test Method: Reference Method for Determining Acute Lethality of Effluents to Daphnia magna (Reference Method EPS 1/RM/14), July 1990, published by the Department of the Environment, as amended in December 2000, and as may be further amended from time to time. ( méthode de référence SPE 1/RM/14 ) Reference Method STB 1/RM/60 means Biological Test Method: Reference Method for Determining Acute Lethality Using Acartia tonsa , published in June 2019 by the Department of the Environment, as amended from time to time. ( méthode de référence DGST 1/RM/60 ) reopened mine [Repealed, SOR/2018-99, s. 2] surface drainage [Repealed, SOR/2018-99, s. 2] suspended solids means any solid matter contained in an effluent that is retained on a 1.5 micron pore filter paper when the effluent is tested in compliance with the analytical requirements set out in Table 1 of Schedule 3. ( matières en suspension ) tailings impoundment area [Repealed, SOR/2006-239, s. 1] total suspended solids [Repealed, SOR/2018-99, s. 2] transitional authorization [Repealed, SOR/2018-99, s. 2] treatment facility effluent means water from a polishing pond, treatment pond, settling pond or water treatment plant or from any mine effluent treatment facility. ( effluent d’installations de traitement ) (2) Every reference in these Regulations to column 1, 2, 3 or 4 of Schedule 4 shall be read as (a) a reference to column 1, 2, 3 or 4 of Table 1 of Schedule 4, in the case of a mine to w