Ecological Resource Consultants, Inc.
The Multidisciplinary Approach

Twin Creeks Mine Water Balance

Project Highlights:

  • Client: Newmont Twin Creeks Mine
  • Location: Potosi District, Humboldt County, Nevada a conglomeration of heap leach pads, process facilities, ponds and water supply sources
  • Developed a probabilistic water balance model
  • Linked several of the pads together to predict the solution fluctuations within the system
  • Complicated pad expansions during active leaching/closures concurrently in the system
  • GoldSim generated probabilistic model outcomes defining ranges of potential storage requirements
  • Requirement models access possible risks and define contingency operations for upset condition