Mining & Extractive
Shafts, conveyors and process plants — construction where the product is the ground.
Mining infrastructure combines underground works, heavy civil engineering and process plant on remote sites with serious logistics. The corridor civils, earthworks and shaft methods are shared with transport and tunnelling, linked below — but here the ground is not just the founding medium, it is the product, and every structure exists to dig it, crush it, move it or store what is left of it.
The three guides in this sector cover surface mining infrastructure — the workshops, conveyors and haul-road estate around the pit; mineral processing plants, heavy industrial construction with wear surfaces and vibration loads everywhere; and tailings and mine services, where the earthworks hold back material you never want to see move.
What does Mining & Extractive cover?
Process guides in Mining & Extractive
- Surface Mine Infrastructure — The working surface of an open pit — haul roads engineered like assets, ROM pads and tipping points, workshops and washdowns, explosive stores behind their bunds, and water that is managed or manages you.
- Mineral Processing Plant Construction — Crushers, mills, flotation and thickeners — a factory built of heavy concrete and vibrating steel, where the civils are machine foundations and alignment is measured to the millimetre on equipment that weighs hundreds of tonnes.
- Tailings Storage & Mine Services — The structures a mine is judged by long after it closes — tailings embankments raised in stages, liners and underdrains, decants and reclaim water, pipelines and the instruments that never stop watching.
Shared methods used in Mining & Extractive
- Corridor Access & Enabling Works
- Survey Control & Ground Investigation
- Bulk Earthworks — Cuttings & Embankments
- Earthworks & Excavation
- Shafts & Portals
- Concrete Frame Construction
- Steel Frame Construction
- Structural Steel & Equipment Setting
- Testing, Commissioning & Asset Handover
Part of the Industrial & Specialist Facilities group.