Tierra Group provided Tailings Stewardship Services including a dam inspection, slope stability analysis review and operational improvements for Endeavour Silver’s Bolanitos tailings storage facility.
Tierra Group developed a site-wide water management plan to improve operational water usage and management at Jaguar Mining's Turmalina Complex in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Turmalina is a zero-discharge facility that required optimizing tailings supernatant usage in the process, enhanced evaporation…
Tierra Group International, Ltd. participated as the geotechnical lead engineering firm for the Copperstone Project Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) in Arizona, U.S.A. Tierra Group was responsible for tailings and waste rock storage, water management and underground geotechnics design and cost estimates…
The Ernesto e Pau-a-Pique (EPP) mine is located in the Municipality of Pontes e Lacerda, at 440 kms of Cuiba City, Brazil. The mine is operated by Apoena Mining, a subsidiary of Aura Minerals Inc. Tierra Group was retained by…
Tierra Group was retained to perform metallurgical due diligence on two operating properties and two prospects in early stage development. The two existing operations consisted of a convention heap leach followed by ADR to produce a Dore on-site and a…
Tierra Group performed a third-party design review of a Cemented Tailings Facility (CTF) and multiple process and freshwater ponds. Tailings will be mixed with cement at the planned paste plant and deposited in the CTF along with underground mine development…
Tierra Group provided slope stability analysis for Agnico Eagle’s dry stack tailings storage facility containing 330,000 tonnes of tailings.
Tierra Group participated as a member of a multi-disciplinary project team to develop a Definitive Feasibility study for a 16,000 tpd silver mine in Durango, Mexico. Tierra Group's responsibilities included designing a 112 Mt tailings storage facility, developing a site-wide…
Don Mario mine is an open pit gold/copper mine located in the Chiquitos Province, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Don Mario mine has been operating since 2002 and currently produces 2700 tpd mill throughput. Conventional tailings are transported and deposited in a…
Tierra Group is evaluating the geotechnical and hydrogeological characteristics of Tajo Crimea to evaluate the feasibility of using the open pit for tailings storage. The project scope aims to define geotechnical site conditions, characterize site hydrogeology, and evaluate potential interaction…
Tierra Group provided a feasibility-level Tailings Storage Facility (TSF) design for Condor Gold’s La India Project permitting, a planned 2,000 tpd open pit mine in western Nicaragua. TSF embankments used rockfill from the open pit and a geomembrane liner for…
Tierra Group served on an Independent Engineering Team performing a tailings management and operations Due Diligence Technical Review at the Morro do Ipe iron ore mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Tierra Group was selected to assist Goldcorp with global Tailings Stewardship Strategy (TSS) implementation at all of Goldcorp’s active tailings sites in Latin America (Mexico, Argentina, and Guatemala). Tierra Group worked in conjunction with Goldcorp and another global engineering consulting…
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