5. MARK-N. GETZLAF
Information acquired: 2025
MARK-N. GETZLAF is an academic who published a paper in 2004 entitled Decommissioning planning for Saskatchewan's potash mines. MARK-N. GETZLAF published this work as part of a team: Reid, K. W.. Here is a description of this work: Saskatchewan's potash producing companies are now in the process of developing decommissioning and reclamation (D&R) plans for potash mines which were in operation many years before these plans were required by provincial regulations. The major problem is to develop a plan for the extensive piles of potash tails now stored on the surface in tails management areas. There are many features of potash mining which are unique to the mining industry. These include mining operations, refining processes, waste characteristics, waste management techniques, mine life, land tenure, public concern, pre-mining environment, and environmental risks. The D&R techniques commonly employed for tails have been considered for use on potash tails piles and have been found to be unsuitable. Potash operations in other jurisdictions have not decommissioned tails piles to a standard whic.