“The review found that in the third-party engineered design, the assessment of the test data overestimated the shear strength properties of the liner system at the base of the heap ...

An independent investigation by Call & Nicholas concluded that the failure was caused by an overestimation of the shear strength properties of the liner system at the base of the heap leach facility.

Global gold miner SSR Mining has pinned the blame on last year's deadly heap leach pad failure at its 80%-owned Copler mine in Turkiye to the company that originally designed the facility 15 years ago ...

SSR Mining (NASDAQ:SSRM) +1.3% pre-market Thursday after saying the February 2024 heap leach failure ... properties of the liner system at the base of the heap leach facility.

found that third-party tests had overestimated the shear strength properties of the liner system at the base of the heap leach. This, it believes, inflated the calculated factor of safety values ...

Focus remains on ramping up crushing capacity at Calandrias Sur and bringing heap leach production up to 4,000 ... at which time the mobile crushers will be placed on stand by.

On June 25, 2024, Victoria Gold reported a heap leach pad failure at its Eagle Gold mine ... These include installing a pumping system and diversion systems for water management. Importantly, no ...