Tierra Group provides Tailings Stewardship Services for the Marlin Mine Tailings Storage Facility. Tierra Group performed a 5-year Dam Safety Review consistent with the Canadian Dam Association protocols, a Facilitated Risk Assessment, site training and in depth inspections of management practices and facilities to assure Best Management Practices (BMP) are implemented and potential risks reduced.
Tierra Group International performed a Tailings Storage Facility Third Party Design Review for a confidential client in Turkey.
Tierra Group performed an initial site visit to Couer Mining’s Palmarejo Mine to conduct dam safety inspections of the tailings storage facility, environmental control dam, water diversion dam, and water diversion channel. Prior to the site visit, Tierra Group reviewed…
Tierra Group performed a Dam Safety Review (DSR) including geotechnical investigations and seepage and slope stability analyses for a 20-m high TSF at this 300‑tpd underground polymetallic mine. The audit was prepared following the Mt. Polley tailings dam failure in…
Tierra Group assisted the Bald Mountain Mine Project Development Team with an evaluation of potential uses for spent ore on legacy heap leach facilities. Tierra Group completed a collaborative trade-off study with site personnel evaluating spent ore use as overliner…
Tierra Group supported proposed Rapid Infiltration Basins Geotechnical Investigation at Au-reka Gold Corporation’s Cove Project in Nevada. Investigation included borehole drilling, test pits, infiltration testing and permeability testing.
Hollister Waste Rock Facility Storage Tierra Group performed a third-party peer review of a Waste Rock Storage Facility (WRSF) design at Klondex Mines’ (Klondex) Hollister Mine in northern Nevada. The WRSF, as designed, involved lining the mine’s existing West Pit…
Tierra Group performed a Dam Safety Review (DSR) for Nyrstar’s tailings storage facility (TSF) located in Campo Morado (Guerrero, Mexico). Tierra Group served as the Tailings Reviewer to ensure conformity with local regulations, the Nyrstar Tailings Storage Facility (TSF) Standard,…
Tierra Group is supporting construction of the San Albino mine in Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua. Tierra Group is designing a dry stack drum filtered-tailings storage facility. A siting study is planned to optimize the dry stack location and minimize CAPEX and…
Performed a TSF Design Review to support a NI 43-101 compliant Feasibility Study. The TSF design incorporated a paste tailings disposal method in an environmentally sensitive fisheries habitat in south-central Montana.
The Aranzazú mine is a copper-gold-silver mine located in the northeastern region of Zacatecas, Mexico. The mine includes both open pit and underground operations. The mill currently processes 2,600 tonnes of ore per day. Tierra Group is responsible for the…
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 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.
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