Tailings And Waste Management

Tailings and Waste Management

The effective, safe disposal of mining wastes presents technical and environmental challenges. Each project is unique and our approach is to tailor the design of every tailings and waste rock storage facility to provide economic solutions appropriate to the site conditions, while providing long-term security and environmental protection.

Knight Piésold has extensive experience in siting, design, permitting operational monitoring and closure of tailings and waste rock storage facilities for a wide variety of climatic and seismic conditions throughout the world.

Waste Characterization

A complete understanding of ore deposit geology, mineralogy, geochemistry, and hydrochemistry is important to ensure that mining operations are developed in an environmentally safe fashion. The optimization of mine operations, understanding of environmental issues, permit application procedures, and closure planning are critical components of a successful mine development.