Tailings & Waste Management
SRK has extensive experience in mine tailings and waste engineering, designing and developing numerous gold, platinum, uranium, copper, iron, oil sands and coal mines worldwide.
International best practice guidelines for tailings and waste management stipulate that storage facilities are designed, operated, closed and rehabilitated to ensure performance that meets strict technical and environmental criteria. SRK has developed a framework of management principles and checklists for implementing these activities throughout the entire mine life cycle.
SRK tailors engineering and geotechnical investigations to the complexity and risk rating of the project, to provide the required information for detailed design and project decision-making. We apply the most appropriate tailings and waste management engineered solutions from conception to closure which integrate proven as well as innovative geotechnical site investigation, seismic assessments, physical and chemical characterisation of waste materials, hydrogeological studies, stability analysis, construction scheduling, tails disposal and piping design, environmental permitting, and closure and rehabilitation planning.
International best practice guidelines for tailings and waste management stipulate that storage facilities are designed, operated, closed and rehabilitated to ensure performance that meets strict technical and environmental criteria. SRK has developed a framework of management principles and checklists for implementing these activities throughout the entire mine life cycle.
SRK tailors engineering and geotechnical investigations to the complexity and risk rating of the project, to provide the required information for detailed design and project decision-making. We apply the most appropriate tailings and waste management engineered solutions from conception to closure which integrate proven as well as innovative geotechnical site investigation, seismic assessments, physical and chemical characterisation of waste materials, hydrogeological studies, stability analysis, construction scheduling, tails disposal and piping design, environmental permitting, and closure and rehabilitation planning.
