View of the 5-Spot wellfield (the Northern Array) of the FLT (to understand the 5-Spot pattern concept with In Situ Leach Mining, see Mudd, 1998).
The yard indeed - close in the forefront is an Injection Well, which forms one corner of the 5-spot pattern. The tank on the left is diesel, with the generator and other infrastructure about the place.
Another view of the 5-Spot pattern. The three corners of the pattern are visible as bores on the left, the middle and the right, with the Extraction bore towards the centre of these three bores (near the generator).
The FLT Plant is visible in the background in the left, plus the pipes strewn across the backdrop as they snake across the surface of the land - what about a one-in-a-hundred flood ? And the pipes are still black - Heathgate say that causes leaks!!! But not the pressure that is, although any engineer would not necessarily agree with Heathgate.
Possibly the disposal well array - where Heathgate pump their excess toxic xolutions back underground and call it "waste management" or "disposal". Other bores could be groundwater monitoring bores, to supposedly see if the toxic solutions are where they're meant to be or contaminating another aquifer.......
All photos taken on October 2, 1998.
Page last updated October 20, 1998.
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