Tierra Group conducted an update of the Mexican Hat Project’s Preliminary Economic Assessment. Tierra Group’s update included the heap leach facility design and preliminary stacking plan, waste rock storage pad, and crushed rock storage pad design.
The Midas Mine is located in northern Nevada, and is owned and operated by Klondex Mines LTD. The mine is an underground mine with an operating mill. The mine’s existing tailings facilities are nearing their end of operating life and…
Serving on Newmont Goldcorp’s Tailings Independent Review Board, Tierra Group provided an Independent Dam Safety Review for the Dona Lake Mine tailings storage facility in Pickle Lake, Ontario, Canada.
Tierra Group conducted an Independent Technical review of Vista Gold Corp’s Mt. Todd Tailings Storage Facility Expansion in Northern Territory, Australia.
Barrick Gold Corporation’s Pierina Mine in Ancash Department, Perú began operations in 1998. A progressive reclamation and closure plan began in 2013. In 2015-16 Tierra Group developed detailed engineering designs for channels, sediment traps, two 45,000 m3 sediment ponds, water…
Tierra Group designed and implemented a stability and safety monitoring plan for Torex Gold’s Morelos Mine dry stack tailings storage facility (TSF). The monitoring plan includes installing inclinometers and vibrating wire piezometers, and training operations staff to download instrumentation readings.…
Tierra Group provided a raise design for Doe Run's Brushy Creek tailings embankment, a facility first commissioned in 1973. Cone penetration testing, liquefaction analysis, seepage modeling, and slope stability modeling were performed for the embankment. Hydrology, spillway design, and impoundment layout…
Tierra Group conducted an expansion pit slope review that included a technical memorandum of site observations/investigation, a review of past and new data, a basic slope analyses that developed recommendations for slope angles that determined if the Pit Expansion would…
Tierra Group completed a Tailings Assurance Audit (TAA) for a closed Tailings Storage Facility (TSF). The TAA was completed to ensure the TSF and site operations complied with the Company's Tailings Management Standard, which closely mirrors Global Industry Standard on…
Tierra Group provided a heap leach facility detailed design (for construction), procurement, CQA and project management for the Camino Rojo Mine in Zacatecas, Mexico.
Tierra Group performed a detailed engineering design for a 4km access road and diversion channel, and the feasibility design for water diversion structures (including electrical and mechanical layout for a pump station). Tierra Group also performed a geotechnical investigation and updated…
Tierra Group provided Civil3D channel design support of diversions for four sites within a large mining property in Nevada.
Tierra Group developed a water balance model to track flows into a backfilled pit at the closed Big Ledge Mine Barite Operation near Wells, Nevada. The Model was used to determine pipeline sizing to a remote treatment pond that is…