Marandoo Waste Fines Storage Facility WFSF Stage 2

Marandoo Waste Fines Storage Facility WFSF Stage 2

Bulk Earthworks | Drainage | Instrumentation | Pipeworks Installation | Polywelding | Road Pavement Construction | Screening | Tailings Dam Construction | Telemetry
Downstream embankment raise of the WFSF, 4m high, including the decommissioning of existing and commissioning of new pipework.
Bulk earthworks, constructing a tailings dam in the Pilbara

Location: Marandoo near Tom Price, WA

Client: Rio Tinto

Duration: December 2014 – June 2015

Bulk and detailed earthworks consisting of a 4 metre embankment lift of a downstream tailings dam.
Modifications, extensions, dismantling and reinstating of under-drainage plant and equipment, waste fines and decant pipework.

  • Approximately half a million cubes of material to construct a zoned embankment
  • 2 km of new tailings HDPE and Steel pipework supplied and installed

cubic metres moved

kilometres of pipeworks installed