Tailings engineering made easy
We know what it Entails...
Tailings engineering made easy
We know what it Entails...
Engineering Capabilities
Mine Residue Disposal Facility Design
Our Entail Geotechnical Engineering team specializes in developing innovative engineering solutions to your tailings storage solution. We are experienced predominantly on the African continent with conventionally placed, and dry-stack tailings. We keep up to date with industry trends, and are fluent in major tailings standards, such as GISTM. Our design services include:
- Tailings site selection
- Concept design
- Geotechnical and geometric design
- Feasibility studies
- Dam Breach Assessments and Consequence classifications
- Detailed design
- Construction Quality Assurance
- Deposition modelling
- CAD and GIS
- Ad-hoc engineering design services.
We make use of analysis and design techniques and software to keep ahead of best-practices.
Water Management
We are specialists in water management associated with tailings storage facilities, including:
- Surface Water Management
- Dam yield modelling
- Tailings Water Balances (Dynamic/Stochastic
- Contact water management
- Design Return and Storm Water Retention Dams
TSF Monitoring
We provide engineering monitoring services that include:
- Monitoring instrumentation design/updates
- Control monitoring dashboards
- Quarterly and ad-hoc inspections
- Annual Reviews
- Dam Safety Inspections
- Due Diligence Review
- Operating. Maintenance, and Surveillance Manuals
- Emergency Preparedness and Response Planning
- Tailings Training
Construction Technical Services
We offer experienced engineering services for your project going to execution, that include:
- Construction monitoring and audits
- Technical support and ad-hoc engineering
- Quality Assurance
- Development of technical specifications, Construction Quality Assurance Plans, and schedules of Quantity
- Tender Adjudication
Geotechnical Services
Our qualified engineers are proficient with geotechnical design and analysis of tailings dams:
- Geotechnical characterization and Critical State Line
- Limit Equilibrium slope stability
- Finite Element deformation assessment
- CPTu interpretation
External Services
Entail maintains strong relationships with seasoned industry professionals who may compliment Entail services. If we do not offer a service you are looking for in-house, we know the right people who do, including:
- Hydrologists
- Geohydrologists
- Engineering Geologists
- Geochemists
- Slurry transport design