Cleanout of Coal Mine Settling Ponds using Geotube® Dewatering Technology
TenCate Geosynthetics - Award of Excellence
A large Indonesian mining corporation operating an open-pit coal mine in a remote part of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, faced a problem on how to dewater extremely high volumes of silt sediments from settling ponds that had reached maximum capacity. The silts originated from silty rainwater runoff from the mine’s open-pits and the mine catchment area. …