{"id":1175,"date":"2020-11-16T01:08:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T14:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neumanndredging.com.au\/projects\/moura-mine-tailings-dredging\/"},"modified":"2021-10-12T10:49:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T23:49:34","slug":"moura-mine-mining-and-resource-dredging-tailings-dredging","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/neumanndredging.com.au\/projects\/moura-mine-mining-and-resource-dredging-tailings-dredging\/","title":{"rendered":"Moura Mine Tailings Dredging"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1175\" class=\"elementor elementor-1175\" data-elementor-post-type=\"projects\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1210ecef elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1210ecef\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3e8c2834\" data-id=\"3e8c2834\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b8514ed elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b8514ed\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Tailings Dredging at Moura Mine <\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71a81d2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"71a81d2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Overview of Project<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c322912 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c322912\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Neumann Dredging&#8217;s Nu-Endeavour was chosen to reclaim coal tailings from the Moura 2C pit.<\/p><p>These tailings were processed to recover the fine coal lost in earlier operations and it was part of a program to empty the pit to enable ongoing mining underground from the pit floor.<\/p><p>The dredge was called upon to produce 450 tonnes per hour of coal tailings, which were pumped distances of up to 2.5km to the processing plant.\u00a0 As the pit was some 45m deep, the end of the job necessitated pumping a vertical cliff face of some 30m to the booster station located at the top of the cliff.<\/p><p>The operation was on a 24 hour, 7 day per week basis and the coal tailing in various places were interspersed with some \u201cliquorice\u201d (a very fine type of coal tailings which bind together like plasticine).\u00a0 On several occasions the dredge was also called upon to dredge through rocky clay shale which were embankments put across the pit during the filling process.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f2ce364 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f2ce364\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Outcome<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6064e875 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6064e875\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The outcome for the dredging operation was positive for all Stakeholders. 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