Jansen Potash Project
Project Overview
Location: Leroy, SK
Client: BHP Billiton
Services: Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering
Sector: Mining
Project Description
The Jansen Mine is a major potash development approximately 140 km east of Saskatoon in Saskatchewan's potash basin. The development includes extensive mine infrastructure: shafts, headframes, material-handling facilities, process infrastructure, tailings facilities, rail connections, loading facilities, and supporting services.
TULLOCH provided geotechnical and project-engineering review support, focusing on investigation data, design criteria, embankment dam and dyke concepts, construction QA/QC plans, monitoring plans, borrow sources, stockpile management, and value-engineering considerations.
Scope of Services
- Review of geotechnical investigations, data reports, and geologic interpretations
- Review of design criteria and recommendations
- Review of construction monitoring and QA/QC plans
- Review of embankment dam and dyke design
- Review of borrow sources, stockpile management, construction, and monitoring plans
- Consulting support for project value-engineering assessment
