Project Location:

Magna, Utah

Owner:

Kennecott Utah Copper

Synopsis of Work:

Ames Construction is the prime contractor on this ongoing mining project that began in 1998. The project represents a major expansion for adding approximately seven miles to an existing tailings dam. The owner generates mill tailings from its Copper/Moly Concentrator and transports these tailings in slurry form via a 17-mile long pipeline to the North Tailings Dam.

Ames Construction is responsible for placement of the tailings material over a continuous 24 hour per day work schedule.

To date, crews have placed over 91 million cubic yards of tailings in slurry form, along the 7-mile long dam. Operations on this massive project continue to run 7 days a week, 365 days per year. Compacted slurry tailings placement in the dam occurs 9 months of the year.

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