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Contract Mining-Related Dredging
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Contract mining by means of hydraulic dredging typically includes the dredging of virgin materials or the removal of tailings.
Our hydraulic dredges can be used to extract virgin cut material, such as sand or gravel, from a deposit below the existing water table. This material is pumped in slurry form to either an upland site or a washing and sizing plant. The material is washed to remove clays, slits, organics, and other impurities while it is sized to produce various construction-related materials. The undesirable material that is removed during the washing and sizing is placed in a pond and referred to as "tailings."
Additionally, our hydraulic dredges can be used to remove these tailings, increasing freshwater storage capacity and aiding in future reclamation activities. Mine tailings can then be pumped to an offline pond or spoil pit or dewatered for on-site placement or export.
C&M Dredging has an extensive background in mining and material recovery. Our staff is MSHA trained and certified and comfortable operating within the environment of today's mining operations. Our typical contract dredging projects within mining operations include:
- services to aid in scaling volumes or augmenting production temporarily
- dredging and remediation of tailings, water storage capacity improvement, and reclamation.
- outsourced dredging portion of mining operations during startup.