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Client: Albian Sands
Location: Fort McMurray, Alberta
Completion Date: 2000 - ongoing
Project Highlights: Geotechnical and Tailings Engineering for an Operating Oil Sands Mine
The Muskeg River Mine is an oil sands mine operated by Albian Sands Energy with a design production of 155,000 bitumen barrels per day. The mine is located approximately 75 km north
of Ft. McMurray. The mine is a truck and shovel operation, with semi-mobile crushers. Bitumen extraction is done at a plant on the mine site, and diluted bitumen is shipped by pipeline to
Shell’s Scotford upgrader in Fort Saskatchewan, near Edmonton.
Tailings from the initial years of production are stored in the External Tailings Facility and contained by a 12 km long ring dyke. During later operation, tailings will be stored in cells in
the mine pit, separated from the active mining areas by in-pit dykes.
Klohn Crippen is Albian Sands' consultant for all geotechnical and tailings engineering requirements for the Muskeg River Mine.
Services:
- Geotechnical engineering supports
- Geotechnical and tailings designs for tailings facility expansion
- Tailings plans
- Annual dam safety reviews
- Dam breach & inundation mapping
- Design of in-pit dykes
- Geotechnical instrumentation design and monitoring
- Tailings pond operations and construction manual
- Emergency preparedness plan
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