TITLE:
Management Plan for Tailing Slurry at Gold Processing Plant: Case Study Pakay Gold Company Limited
AUTHORS:
James Obiri-Yeboah
KEYWORDS:
Tailing, Slurry, Filtration, Opportunities, Legislative, Litigation, Toxic, Plan and Alternative
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Business and Management,
Vol.9 No.1,
January
29,
2021
ABSTRACT: The resultant disgusting effect related to failure to produce
environmental friendly tailing slurry, call for developing a good management
plan for tailing slurry production of the newly introduce dry tailing machine
at the Gold Processing Plant of Pakay Gold Company Ghana Limited. Hence, the tailing slurry
management plan consists of documented steps put together to enhance the
discharge of environmentally acceptable tailing product for further monitoring
and usage. The nonexistence of a plan for managing input (40% solid slurry) and
output (product) of the tailing filtration plant (dry tailing machine) at Pakay
Gold Company is a recipe for systemic disaster which points to the potential of
legislative litigation with production and revenue shortfalls. This points out the need for this
paper’s assessment of plant slurry threats or opportunities, sets an objective for management plan, develops premises and identifies alternatives of the tailing
slurry input and product to enhance the development of a plan for managing the
dry tailing machine. Furthermore, additional management plan steps that
followed were examination and selection of alternative action plan for
environmental toxic prevention model. Moreover, plan for implementation as well
as supporting plans and review measures were done to eliminate any future
legislative agencies litigation. The aim of this paper is to provide tailing
slurry management plan that will ensure the eradication of any potential
adverse environmental effect and litigation phenomenon that may be associated
with the products of the tailing slurry filtration plant.