Mining Magazine October 2019 | Page 23

23 for a construction site ”, along with more than 100 apartments , including three-bed family units , for the ongoing operations team . “ Compared to some of the projects I have completed elsewhere in the world , the infrastructure in eastern Turkey is fantastic . We had a great road to the mine site , a 50MW hydro power station 5km away ( connected to the national grid ) and other hydro power stations in the area .”
The CSEP comprised of three major sections of scope : the process plant , tailings storage facility and support infrastructure . The tailings storage facility is a fully lined , downstream impoundment with both under and over drain systems . The embankment is a mass wall , with phase one constructed during the CSEP construction , containing 3.5 million m 3 of structural rock fill . The construction of the TSF was delivered using the current mining contractor , Çiftay , with Golder providing
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