Water Management Solutions for Mining Developments & Tailings Facilities

Sustainably developing and managing water at a site is a critical concern for the mining industry.

Mine water management is a cornerstone of responsible mine design, operation, and closure. It encompasses the control, treatment, and strategic reuse of water impacted by mining, which can include dewatering discharges, process waters, tailings seepage, and acid mine drainage and metalliferous runoff.

To support clients, we focus on finding best-value, fit-for-purpose solutions and carefully choose technologies to maximise production and safety.

Mine Water Management Services

  • Hydrology and hydrogeology

  • GoldSim modelling

  • Mine water treatment
  • Mine waste characterisation and geochemistry

  • Water quality evaluation, analysis, and management plans

  • Environmental geochemistry
  • Biogeochemical models
  • Groundwater impacts evaluation and remediation

  • Groundwater, surface-water, and water-balance modelling

  • Mine water management

  • Water sustainability reviews and pre-design optimisation studies

  • Compliance and approvals

  • Mine process design and water treatment
  • Innovative biological and physiochemical water treatment
  • In-house treatability testing
  • Groundwater quality evaluation and assessment

  • Contaminant plume migration modelling

  • Watershed hydrology analysis

  • Stormwater and surface-water erosion control, conveyance, and diversion design

  • Flood and breach analysis

  • Dam consequence and risk assessment

  • Inundation studies and hazard potential classification
  • Tailing delivery system design

Subsurface Modelling & Groundwater Flow/Transport Modelling

Geosyntec brings life-cycle experience to assist clients with subsurface geological modelling and groundwater flow/transport modelling relating to mining developments and tailings facilities.

  • Advanced 3D geological modelling and subsurface databasing capabilities

  • Advanced 1D, 2D, and 3D numerical groundwater flow modelling of systems, including tailings facility seepage, water dams, mine pits, and soil caps

  • Targeted uncertainty analysis and assessment strategies​

  • 2D and 3D transport modelling of flow paths, solutes, and concentrations

  • Reactive geochemical modelling, including water type mixing models, dilution models, and soil–water interactions

  • Integration of varied subsurface datasets, including factual, interpreted, modelled, geological/resource, groundwater, chemistry, and geotechnical, into robust and evolvable modelling tools to inform engineering design

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