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TAILINGS INSTRUMENTATION & SAFETY MONITORING

Roctest provides sensors that monitor tailings dams and provide a wide range of information that is crucial for structural safety and management.

We are a leading expert in tailing dam monitoring during the construction phase and throughout the tailing dam’s lifespan. We have a wide variety of sensors using leading-edge technology and can assist you in identifying the best products for your project and budget. Please consult the Application note for additional details.

BENEFITS OF OUR INTEGRATED TAILING DAM SAFET AND HEALTH MONITORING SOLUTIONS

  1. Integrated solutions Provide structural health monitoring solutions for tailing dams using advanced fiber-optic technologies and vibrating wire sensors.
  2. Optimizedoperations and maintenance Provide important data on the structural behavior of a tailing dam’s body or foundation in order to ensure safe operation.
  3. Preservation of water, safety of people and nature Run real-time monitoring to alert of any deviation from normal behaviour.
  4. Impact assessment of extraordinarynatural events Provide details on the impact of events such as earthquakes or excessive rainfall in an effort to minimize risk.
  5. Regulation compliance Develop technologies that meet current and future standards for tailings safety.

PROJECTS & CASE STUDIES

  1. El Torito – Chile
  2. Muro Principal of Las Tortolas, copper mine – Chile
  3. Muro Oeste of Las Tortolas,copper mine – Chile
  4. Perez Caldera II, copper mine – Chile
  5. Sierra Gorda, copper / molybdenum – Chile
  6. Biolixiviation valley – Chile
  7. Laguna Seca, copper mine – Chile
  8. Cerro Verde, copper mine – Peru
  9. Mareesburg, platinum mine – South Africa
  10. Minas Rio, iron mine – Brazil

Customers

Our customers include:

  • Anglo American Corporation
  • Rio Tinto Company Limited
  • Freeport-McMoRan Inc.
  • GeoMediciones (system integrator for Chile and Peru)

PUBLICATIONS ON DAMS monitoring

  1. Monitoring Dams and Levees with distributed Fiber Optic Sensing Daniele Inaudi, Ivan Cottone, Angelo Figini, SHMII-6 2013 – 2013
  2. “Fiber Optic Structural Health Monitoring for Dams”, Cottone, Hydropower and Dams Conference, Porto 2019
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