Case Study
Williams Mine - Tailings Dam Raises
The Williams Mine is an open pit and underground gold mine located off Highway 17 between White River and Marathon, Ontario, 15 km from the northeast shore of Lake Superior. During the non-winter months of 2012 and 2013, Geo-Foundations completed bedrock fissure grouting below the undersides of numerous proposed earth dams designed to enable raising of the existing tailings impoundment ponds adjacent to the mine. New dam sections, as well a