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Open Pit Dewatering in Niger, from Groundwater Modeling Forecast to In-Pit Water Management Anthony Le Beux1, Amadou Boubacar2, Farook Assalack3, Pierre Grizard4

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Open Pit Dewatering in Niger, from Groundwater Modeling Forecast to In-Pit Water Management Anthony Le Beux1, Amadou Boubacar2, Farook Assalack3, Pierre Grizard4 Open Pit Dewatering in Niger, from Groundwater Modeling Forecast to in-pit Water Management Anthony Le Beux1, Amadou Boubacar2, Farook Assalack3, Pierre Grizard4 1Orano Mining, R&D Department , Paris La Défense, France, [email protected] 2Somaïr,Geology & Hydrogeology Department, Arlit, Niger 3Orano Mining, Geoscience Department, Arlit, Niger 4Orano Mining, Geoscience Department, Paris La Défense, France Abstract Since 2016, Somaïr has been operating in northern Niger an open-pit mine to extract uranium from a sandstone reservoir hosting a regional groundwater aquifer. The first part of this article relates the geological and hydrogeological studies carried out to design the dewatering system. In the second part, we compare dewatering plans to the encountered settings during mining operation and describe actions carried out inside and outside the pit as operations progressed in order to keep the pit toe dry for mining. Keywords: Open-pit dewatering, Groundwater modelling, Water management, Uranium mining Introduction average elevation of 430 m. The landscape Geological exploration work carried out is monotonous (regs with small pebbles and in the 1950s in northern Niger, led to the sandy areas) and uniformly flat. Climate is development of a uranium mining industry arid with an average annual rainfall around operated by two companies, Somair and 40 mm/yr, annual average temperature Cominak, subsidiaries of the Orano Group. around 28°C and pan evaporation ranging The main mineralized reservoirs are located from 10 to 15 mm/day. in the Arlit region, on the edge of the Geological formations of the Arlit Tim Mersoi sedimentary basin, with an region consist of sedimentary deposits underground mining operation for Cominak of the Tim Mersoi basin, dated from and open-pit mining for Somaïr. Lower Paleozoic to the Cretaceous. This In 2012, Somaïr launched the project sedimentary basin presents a succession to operate the Artois pit, known to be the of marine and continental sedimentation deepest open-pit of its portfolio. To ensure dry environments, lying unconformably on the operations while mining a dewatering system Aïr Massif Precambrian basement (see fig. 1). needed to be engineered in a collaboration Sedimentary sequences alternate layers of between Somaïr’s operation engineers and sandstone and shale, regionally dipping to the Orano Mining technical experts. Mining west. The structural setting is characterized operations started in 2016 and will reach by North to South regional trending in 2019-2020 the ultimate expansion of the structures (Arlit flexure-fault) and East- forecasted open-pit. North-East to West-South-West secondary This article presents how the dewatering faults (Autruche, Izerataguen flexure-faults). system was designed prior to mining operation Groundwater is hosted by three sandstone and how operators were able to adapt the layers (Izegouande, Tarat and Guezouman) system during the recent exploitation. separated by shale layers but interconnected through major faults (Boko 2017). Prior to Regional Setting the commencement of mining operations, The Somaïr mine site is located in the Arlit groundwater flow was from recharge area on region of northern Niger. It lies in a plain relief, the edge of the basin towards Arlit flexure- 80 km west of the Aïr granitic massif with an fault (Dodo 1992 and Le Beux 2013b). The Wolkersdorfer, Ch.; Khayrulina, E.; Polyakova, S.; Bogush, A. (Editors) 585 IMWA 2019 “Mine Water: Technological and Ecological Challenges” Figure 1 Geological map of Arlit region, Niger flexure-fault acted as a semi-permeable groundwater flow direction (see fig. 2) is barrier, flattening the groundwater gradient mainly influenced by the water supplied from to the East and allowing groundwater the pit lake of a former open-pit (average connections between aquifers on either side abstraction of 35,000 m3/month). Prior to of the flexure-fault. In the present conditions, Artois operation, the groundwater level in groundwater east of the Arlit flexure-fault the Artois syncline ranged from 385 m in regionally converges towards the Cominak the northern side where the Tarat sandstone underground mine. Locally, the Tarat and outcrops, to an average of 350 m in the Izegouande aquifers are dried out due to vicinity of the forecasted Artois pit. dewatering activities at the Somaïr mine. Groundwater flow in the Artois syncline is partly disconnected from the regional Artois Open Pit Project groundwater flow (Le Beux 2013a), with Geology and Hydrogeology the Arlit and Autruche faults acting as Somaïr operates a number of open-pits to compartementalizing barriers. The recharge extract uranium from a Tarat sandstone is considered very low, most probably limited reservoir. These open pits are located between to the northern side of the syncline, where two major structures, Arlit flexure-fault to a prominent wadi system intersects an the west and Autruche flexure-fault to the outcropping Tarat sandstone formation. It is a productive aquifer (wells specific capacity of east, creating two anticlines. The depth of the 3 each open pit depends on its location with exceeding 5 m /h per m) and has been used respect to the resulting synclinevarying from for production of industrial water supply since the mid 2000s. Well abstraction rose to 50 m to more than 100 m in the deepest areas 3 of the syncline. 150,000 m /month in the mid 2010s with an The mineralized horizon hosts an aquifer overall depletion in the syncline of the aquifer with an average thickness of 30 m. The of about 2 m/year. 586 Wolkersdorfer, Ch.; Khayrulina, E.; Polyakova, S.; Bogush, A. (Editors) IMWA 2019 “Mine Water: Technological and Ecological Challenges” Figure 2 Groundwater map of the Somaïr area prior to Artois operation Artois open pit operation and dewatering The dewatering scheme was approached strategy with a model simulating groundwater flow in Mining operation of Artois open pit started the Tarat sandstone reservoir. It was calibrated in 2016 and production is forecasted until based on 10 years of groundwater monitoring 2022. It is expected to reach the level of 300 m in the Artois syncline. The objective of in 2019-2020, the deepest section Somaïr’s the simulation was to define (i) how many mine portfolio. At it’s ultimate limits the open dewatering wells would be required to lower pit will be 1,660 m from north to south and the water table, (ii) how much water would 700 m from east to west. Although it was be abstracted from the dewatering wells, (iii) expected that the southern and eastern edges what depressurization could be achieved of the pit would be dry (Autruche flexure- and (iv) how much water would have to be fault, see fig.2), most of the open pit extension managed by the in-pit dewatering systems. to the north would require dewatering to The simulations (Le Beux 2015) were lower the water table below the pit floor (up run to forecast the first 3 years of Artois to 50 m depressurization). operation (2016-2018, see fig. 4). The results Mining operation progresses from south indicated that 14 to 16 dewatering wells, at to north with two work faces, one dedicated to a distance of 80 to 120 m from each other, advancement of the overburden stripping and would be required to lower the water table to the other one for ore mining. The northern approximately 325 m. The total abstraction 3 open pit wall will therefore always be about rate was estimated at 180,000 m /month at 3 300 m ahead compared to the open pit ore toe. the start, then dropping to 110,000 m /month In order to induce a rapid depressurization after one year of operation. Individual wells of the starter pit, it was decided to set up would be operated at flow rates of 7,300 to 3 3 an evolutive ring of perimeter dewatering 13,000 m /month (10 to 18 m /h) which is wells intersecting inflows on the western respectively in the range of 40 to 70% of the and northern open pit wall (see fig. 3). The critical flow rates of historical wells currently location of the first ring to the north was set in operation in the Artois syncline. to intersect the deepest section of the syncline In-pit water abstraction was estimated 3 where the dewatering wells were expected to to be in the order of 25,000 m /month after provide the best specific capacity. 2018. Water was planned to be managed from Wolkersdorfer, Ch.; Khayrulina, E.; Polyakova, S.; Bogush, A. (Editors) 587 IMWA 2019 “Mine Water: Technological and Ecological Challenges” Figure 3 Artois open pit design and dewatering strategy. The location of the open pit can be seen in fig.2B. Figure 4 Groundwater simulation results 2016-2018 (from Visual Modflow) mobile pumps, with a standard flowrate of ranged from 9 to 15 m3/h with specific 55,000 m3/month (or 80 m3/h) with a lifting capacities of 0.4 to 5 m3/h per m (monthly capacity of 40 m, and installed in sumps dug water abstraction of 100,000 to 130,000 m3, see ahead of the ore excavation. Water abstracted fig. 5). from all sumps would then be pumped out of In early 2017, a review of the dewatering the open pit from a primary pond equipped strategy based on 6 months return of with a fixed pumping system (flowrate of experience was organized (Beal 2017). 100 m3/h with a lifting capacity of 120 m). The The data collected during this period installed abstraction capacity will exceed the indicated that the aquifer depressurization estimated water inflow and will be operated was consistent with the model simulation, at less than 40% of its availability. however, the specific capacity of the wells tended to decrease faster than expected.
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