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Article: New database to help mines track impact.
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- Northern Ontario Business
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- January 1, 2006
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New environmental regulations requiring Canadian mines to monitor the downstream effects of their effluent have prompted Laurentian University researchers and a number of partners to produce an online reference database.
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The university's Cooperative Freshwater Ecology Unit is working with major miners Inco, Placer Dome, Goldcorp, Newmont Canada and Williams Operating Corporation to produce some new biological benchmarks in assessing the health of aquatic species in Northern lakes and rivers.
Researchers have developed models to assess the impact of mining discharges by monitoring the health of benthic invertebrate species ...