Tailings Operation and Management
We view a tailings dam as one of the most cost intensive assets of the mineral processing operation due to its associated running costs, environmental liability and risk on license to operate. It is for this reason that we have adopted an interest in providing metallurgical oriented service on tailings dam operation and management.
1. Ensure compliance to statutory requirements
2. Ensure safe operation
Phreatic surface level management
Eliminate risk of wall damage from pipe bursts
Dust control below OEL through suppression, netting and vegetation
Free board zone height control
Manage dam wall rise rate and embankment stability
3. Ensure operational integrity
Beach slope control
Deposition recipe
Seepage control
Solution trench silt and vegetation control
Vertical drain expansion
Toe drain discharge monitoring
