Case Study: Mining
Real-Time Mining Water Quality Monitoring at a Montana PGM Mine
KETOS automates mining water quality monitoring across 35+ parameters to improve visibility, enable faster responses, and protect compliance.
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At a platinum group metals (PGM) mine in Montana, wastewater from underground palladium and platinum operations posed serious environmental risks. Nitrogen compounds like ammonia, nitrates, and nitrites (along with heavy metals such as zinc and chromium) threatened nearby tributaries and groundwater. Following notices of violation from the EPA and the state’s Department of Environmental Quality, the mine needed a smarter, faster way to detect and remediate nitrate spikes before they led to permit exceedances.
Discover how KETOS transformed the mine’s compliance story. KETOS deployed SHIELD at critical control points within the treatment process, enabling real-time mining water quality monitoring of ammonia, nitrates, nitrites, alkalinity, chromium, zinc, and orthophosphates.
By transforming static lab sampling into continuous, AI-powered intelligence, the mine shifted from reactive remediation to proactive process control, optimizing methanol dosing, stabilizing biotreatment performance, and validating discharge compliance in real time.
Inside the full mining water quality monitoring case study, you’ll learn:
- How KETOS SHIELD tracked ammonia, nitrates, nitrites, zinc, chromium, and orthophosphates at critical points across the mine's treatment process.
- How real-time monitoring helped the PGM operation respond to EPA and Department of Environmental Quality notices of violation and reduce permit exceedance risk.
- How continuous data informed methanol dosing decisions and stabilized biotreatment performance.
- How the shift from periodic lab sampling to continuous monitoring changed the mine's approach to compliance and discharge validation.
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