URS has enjoyed a long association with the mining industry working with some of the worlds leading mining operations. As part of the multidisciplinary services URS offers clients, the Geotechnical group carries out:

• routing studies for conveyors, railways, pipelines and other linear structures;
• site investigations for mine infrastructure facilities including river diversion and levees, townships and industrial facilities;
• tailings dams designs;
• waste management evaluation;
• acid rock drainage assessments;
• spoil pile stability, land reclamation and stabilisation studies;
• heap leach pad design;
• rock and quarry kinematic slope stability analyses;
• tailings consolidation assessments;
• site specific probabilistic seismic hazard studies;
• liquefaction evaluations and studies;
• rock mass deformation and analyses;
• applications of geosynthetics to the mining environment;
• preparation of concept, pre-feasibility, feasibility, and detail design reports and drawings; and
• preparation of technical specifications and bid documents.