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Katie Crushes it at Fairmont!
Enviromin’s Senior Environmental Scientist, Katharine Seipel, spoke today at the Mine Design, Operations & Closure Conference at Fairmont. Her presentation: Increase in Sulfate Reducing Bacteria in Groundwater Resulting from Hydraulic Bulkheading, Glengary Adit, New World District, Cooke City, MT, was a great success. If you missed it and are at Fairmont this week, reach out to Katie or join Enviromin on Wednesday, August 25th at 11:00 am for another glimpse at what Enviromin has been Read more…
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Enviromin Team Welcomes Geochemist Lauren Bozeman!
Enviromin is excited to welcome Lauren Bozeman back to our environmental geochemistry team. Lauren worked for Enviromin from 2012 through 2015 before pursuing her M.S. in Environmental Science at the University of Arizona and has rejoined the team as a geochemist responsible for data collection, assembly, and analysis for a variety of projects. She is also MSHA underground miner certified and brings Spanish language skills to Enviromin. Lauren’s experience with mining related geochemistry includes geochemical Read more…
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Teck Doubles Water Treatment Capacity at Elkview Operations
Congratulations to Teck Resources Limited (“Teck”) on their announcement today that commissioning is now underway at its Elkview Saturated Rock Fill expansion, which doubles the water treatment facility’s capacity to 20 million litres of water per day. “Teck’s use of saturated rock fills to treat mine-affected water is leading-edge sustainable technology. Saturated rock fill is extremely effective at removing selenium and nitrate from mine affected water and improving water quality.” – Dr. Lisa Kirk, Principal Read more…
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Join Enviromin’s Terry Biere at the Virtual Mine Design, Operations, and Closure Conference
Don’t miss Terry Biere, MS, Senior Environmental Engineer, at the 28th Annual Montana Mine Design, Operations, and Closure Conference. Terry’s talk on the Use of Biocoupons will be held virtually this year at 10:00 am on Tuesday, August 18, 2020, and can be accessed through the conference website. Biocoupons: Shedding Light on the Black Box of Biological Water Treatment Biological water treatment systems rely on microbial activity that often occurs in biofilms, wherein groups of Read more…
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Collaborative research leads to new method of protecting water affected by mining activities
Enviromin’s owner, Lisa Kirk, PhD, said her passion is applying the new technology even more widely. “If we can promote these biological methods of treating mine-affected water for other mining operations, we have an opportunity to change the face of mining,” she said. “I think that’s really exciting.”
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Gratitude…Enviromin Volunteers at Fork & Spoon!
Enviromin “picked up the tab” and used our skillful teamwork to plate, serve, bus, wash, and clean at the Fork and Spoon, Montana’s first and only pay-what-you-can restaurant. The night created connections within the community and within our team, and the incredible scratch meal with local ingredients filled us up in many ways. We are grateful for Hannah’s evening leadership, time together, and the meaningful social enterprise serving our community.
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Happy New Year from Enviromin!
As we look forward to the new year, we also reflect back with gratitude for our clients, collaborators, colleagues, friends, and family that made Enviromin such a great place in 2019. The highlight of our year here at Enviromin was celebrating our 15-year company anniversary providing environmental and mineral resources consulting in support of Sustainable Materials AND Clean Water. Along with this milestone, 2019 has allowed Enviromin to expand our laboratory capabilities and grow to a Read more…