Newcrest Tailings Stewardship initial detailed safety inspection phase
- Client Name
- Newcrest Tailings Stewardship Program
- Location
- New South Wales, Australia
- Hydrogeology
- Hydrology
- Civil & structural engineering
- Mine waste engineering
- Geotechnical engineering
Our Client required tailings stewardship services for tailing storage facilities and qualifying water retention dams, across multiple projects, as a part of the Newcrest Tailings Stewardship Program. This included:
- Cadia Valley Operations New South Wales Australia (Gold)
- Telfer, Western Australia (Gold and Copper)
Our objective was to improve management, compliance and safety of tailing storage facilities as a part of the Newcrest Tailings Storage Facility Stewardship Program.
Our team provided the following:
- Dam safety inspections
- Tailing management practices assessment
- Geotechnical instrumentation and investigations
- Tailings and water mass balance
- Environmental quality monitoring
- Dam design and construction; dam raises plans and construction Quality
- Assurance and Quality Control
- Closure plan
- Hydrology and hydraulics assessment
- Operation, Maintenance and Surveillance and Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans review
- Engineering assessment, ensuring Global Industry Standard for Tailing Management compliance
- Dam hazard classification
- Seismicity assessment
- Dam break and inundation report
- Slope stability analyses
- Liquefication and deformation analyses