In the mining industry, the use of geosynthetic materials is crucial for achieving cost control and enhancing environmental performance. As mining operations expand in scale and complexity, geosynthetics play a vital role in various applications, including heap leaching, tailings management, and infrastructure reinforcement.
The daily mining rates, scale of single-site operations, and costs associated with mining increase every year. Advances in extraction technologies have greatly increased recovery rates from ore bodies. Mine designs previously thought to be too big to be possible are achieved every year or two so that an average mine today is signifi cantly larger than an average mine just 10 years ago.
To construct on this scale, which is often necessitated by marketplace price points and competition for investor support, requires substantial engineering to make mines economically feasible and environmentally sound.