With a changing climate, increased frequency of extreme weather events, tightening regulations, and rising stakeholder expectations, reactive tailings management is not sustainable. Small issues become complex, costly, and operationally disruptive when left unchecked.
At XR3, we see the same pattern across sites: tailings challenges often become visible only when they are already expensive to address.
Reactive tailings management keeps sites in “recovery mode,” addressing symptoms rather than preventing issues.
Common impacts include:
Proactive tailings control integrates deposition planning, water management, and monitoring into daily operations. Mines that maintain strong tailings performance benefit from:
Proactive management is not only safer – it is far more cost-effective.
Modern tailings management demands specialised equipment, skilled operators, and consistent execution. XR3 provides integrated support across the full tailings lifecycle.
Our capabilities include:
Safely reclaiming or relocating tailings – including hard-to-access or legacy deposits.
Restoring geotechnical and geochemical stability, recovering space, facilitating revegetation, or preparing cells for future use.
Supporting study work and execution to keep clean water clean.
Supporting both long-term systems and rapid-response requirements.
Experienced operators and supervisors focused on safe, reliable execution.
Site investigation, data, monitoring, deposition strategy, operational improvement, trade-offs, and closure planning.
Buttresses, covers, raises, water management structures, underdrains, and tailings relocation.
With XR3, mining operations have a single partner capable of handling tailings planning, production, dewatering, reclamation, and relocation.
From early assessment to full lifecycle execution, XR3 supports mines in staying compliant, productive, and future-ready.