The gravity thickener infrastructure at Exxaro’s Grootegeluk mine in Lephalale, South Africa plays a pivotal role in the recycling of water used for settlement of fines generated through fragmentation (blasting from mining) and degradation (handling processes in pit and plant; loading of trucks, bunkers, silos, chutes, transfer points). When the site operator’s maintenance program deemed it necessary to remediate each of the gravity thickener tanks, Concrete Canvas’s CC HydroTM lining solution was specified.
The work extended the infrastructure’s operational life and ensured efficient, environmentally sound functioning going forward.