Integrated environmental services for sustainable mining
In today’s rapidly evolving global landscape, the demand for critical minerals essential for the energy transition has sparked a complex interaction of environmental, social, and economic factors. The race to secure these essential resources often leads to tensions between industrial progress and ecological preservation.
At Montrose, we recognize the intricate balance required to successfully navigate this landscape. Our environmental services are designed to address the multidisciplinary challenges faced by the mining and energy sectors. From initial exploration and planning to operational management and site rehabilitation, we provide expert guidance to help our clients meet regulatory requirements, effectively engage stakeholders, and implement sustainable practices.
With flexible solutions that span the entire project lifecycle, we support and empower our clients to responsibly extract the materials needed for our clean energy future while minimizing environmental impacts and fostering positive community relationships.
Our Services
- Baseline and Environmental Impact Assessments – full spectrum including ecology, water, air/noise, social, economic, visual amenity, and soils
- Regulatory permitting and approvals
- Risk management
- Stakeholder engagement
- Water resource and supply modelling
- Climate change risk assessment and resiliency adaptation
- Decarbonization planning
- Environmental regulatory compliance monitoring and reporting
- Approvals for operational amendments and expansions
- Community engagement plans
- Operational environmental management plans
- Optimization studies
- Soil assessments, topsoil stripping, and stockpile management
- Mine water management and operational water balance modelling
- Surface water engineering and geomorphology design solutions
- Financial assurance and rehabilitation bond calculations
- Quality management programs
- Rehabilitation/reclamation and closure planning
- Environmental cost/benefit analysis and final land use assessment
- Risk assessment and liability management
- Contamination assessment and remediation
- Environmental and rehabilitation/reclamation monitoring
- Landform evolution modelling
- Construction management and quality assurance
- Rehabilitation certification, mining lease relinquishment, and licencing surrender
Across these service offerings, our teams apply an overarching lens of climate risk and resilience and leverage our team of Digital Services professionals for geomatics insights and professional environmental data management.
Case Studies
Mine Water and Selenium Management Plan
Montrose’s Canadian Consulting & Engineering Division (formerly Matrix Solutions) designed a water and selenium management program and completed environmental monitoring and assessments for the Tent Mountain mine EPEA application in southwest Alberta.
Blogs
Using Environmental Benefits Analysis to Inform Mine Closures and the Transition to a New Energy Future
Read more to learn how an environmental cost/benefit analysis can optimize the ecosystem service and natural capital benefits of mine closure expenditures.
Our work
Our teams engage in diverse mining projects, including:
- Base metals such as alumina/bauxite, copper, iron ore, tin, and zinc.
- Critical minerals such as cobalt, graphite, lithium, nickel, titanium, tungsten, and vanadium.
- Precious metals such as gold and silver.
- Coal and oil shale/sands.
- Industrial minerals such as silica sand and limestone.
- Solution mining of potash, high-purity alumina, molybdenum, uranium, and lithium from brine using direct lithium extraction (DLE).
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Montrose Environmental provides services to optimize your mining operations while ensuring environmental compliance.
