Our focus for mining clients is using modern ground improvement and in situ testing methods to reduce construction timeframe, lower construction costs, improve quality, reduce risk and reduce your environmental footprint.
Situations include:
- Tailings Management and Tailings Storage Facilities (TSF’s)
- Mine Closure and Mine Reclamation / Remediation / Rehabilitation
- Mining Operations Areas – Pit Floor, Tip Head & Spoil Management
- Mine Haul Roads
- Heavy Haul Rail
- Hard Stands
- Temporary Works
- Mining Camps
- Renewable Energy
- Pipelines
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Typical conversations with consultants, mine superintendents and managers are around answering questions like:
- How to compact much deeper lifts of freshly placed or in situ material and test the compaction integrity
- How to increase the grain size of the placed material and achieve satisfactory compaction
- How to increase placed loose lift thickness (even double) with standard vibratory rollers and then test compaction
- How to increase compaction uniformity and eliminate under and over rolling
- How to reduce the need to remove and replace uncontrolled fill and unsuitable clay soils
- How to reduce time between testing and getting results – close to real time feedback on performance with project / stakeholder wide visibility
- How to manage our tailings storage facilities (TSFs) and waste dumps so they are structurally stable and environmentally safe including during mine closure
What questions are you looking to answer? We’d love to hear from you.
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