Tailings Dams & Tailings Impoundments
Safe, economical designs adaptive to performance
BGC provides comprehensive geoscience-based engineering services for tailings impoundments for the entire mining life cycle from conceptual design through closure that includes site selection and characterization; all stages of design; issued for construction documents; construction monitoring; operation and maintenance manuals, surveillance and inspection; and reclamation plans.

BGC provides comprehensive geoscience-based engineering services for tailings impoundments for the entire mining lifecycle from conceptual design through closure. These services include:
- Site selection, characterization, geohazard assessment, borrow studies, risk assessments, alternatives studies
- Design for:
- All stages of mining including conceptual, feasibility, capital/operational, and closure
- Different tailings technologies including conventional slurry, thickened, filtered
- Optimized economics using the available borrow
- Different site conditions including climate (e.g., cold, temperate, arid, tropical climates and their potential for future changes “climate change”), and high seismicity
- Structures to manage stormwater and seepage (including projected future climate change)
- Engineer of record (EOR) duties with issued for construction documents (drawings specification, records reporting), construction monitoring (QA and QC), contract bid evaluation support
- Operational support including water balances, dam breach studies, operation and maintenance manuals, surveillance and inspection, instrumentation and remote sensing systems for monitoring, and depositional planning
- Risk assessments
- Support for engagement with regulators or members (e.g., for permits).