COUNTRY: PROJECT TYPE: Australia Remote, wireless monitoring of tailings dams SECTOR: MAIN PRODUCT: Mining Loadsensing | The Wireless Monitoring System SUCCESS STORY TAILINGS DAM MONITORING FOR BODDINGTON - AUSTRALIA’S LARGEST GOLD MINE 2 Challenge Boddington Mine, located within the Saddleback greenstone belt in Western Australia, is Australia’s largest producing gold mine. It has a Residue Disposal Area (RDA) where it stores the mine tailings residue from the gold and copper processing. The mine owner, Newmont, previously deployed site personnel to manually monitor the extensive piezometer network around the RDA, which was quite a challenge considering the facility covers an area of 12 square kilometers. Solution As part of Newmont’s R

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