ALS has a broad scope of experience in providing environmental testing services for the mining industry.
Mining operations may have needs for the following environmental testing services:
- Baseline analyses for environmental impact statements
- Heavy metals bio-uptake in plant and animal tissue
- Surface and groundwater for trace level metals, nutrients, general chemistry, and physical parameters
- Soil, waste rock, sludge, and sediment samples for trace level metals, nutrients, acid generation potential, physical analyses, and leaching tests
- Animal and plant tissue samples for trace level metals and organic contaminants
Service Capabilities
- Air quality/dust
- Baseline analyses for environmental impact statements
- Heavy metals bio-uptake in plant and animal tissue
- Leaching and attenuation studies of spent ore, waste rock and soil
- Acid mine drainage treatability studies
- Agronomic soils - chemical, nutrient, and physical analyses
- Acid generation potential of spent ore, waste rock and soil
- Long-term waste stream monitoring
- Low-level organic, inorganic and metals analyses
- Reclamation project analyses
- Remediation method development
- Sediment, Soil and overburden -TCLP/SPLPWaste characterisation
- Wastewater analyses
