Challenging economic conditions and changing environmental regulations are resulting in tailings pipeline systems that travel longer distances at higher concentrations, and with longer design lives.
We provide integrated solutions for tailings storage facilities that incorporate our environmental, geotechnical, process, and pipelines expertise.
Our tailings pipeline solutions include the use of gravity flow, open channel flow, energy dissipation, multiple pumps in series, and thickened paste disposal. With expertise built over many years in complex hydraulics and tailings disposal, we tailor our solutions to meet your unique project requirements and site conditions.
Our full range of services for tailings transport and delivery systems include:
Conventional tailings
- Cyclone sand separation and distribution
- Single point discharge
- Perimeter spigotting
- Open channel flow (launder system)
- Drop box systems
Paste and thickened tailings
- Surface deposition
- Underground hydraulic/paste backfill systems
- Dry stacking
Residue disposal (bauxite and red muds)
- Central ramp discharges
- Side hill discharges
Ash management
- High concentrated slurry disposal
- Fly ash, bottom ash
- Central ramp discharges
- Side hill discharges
Water management and reclaim systems
- Water balance and release
- Reclaim barge
- Decant tower
- Seepage water pumping
- Deep sea tailings placement