Innovation, monitoring and industry collaboration

Gold Fields is a major sponsor of AMIRA International's P1217 collaborative research project, which is focused on evaluating and improving TSF monitoring systems. The project aims to:

• Catalogue and assess existing and emerging monitoring technologies
• Install and trial selected instrumentation across sponsor sites
• Develop digital twin models for predictive failure scenario analysis
• Identify opportunities to develop novel sensors, such as those capable of detecting the onset of static liquefaction, a currently unmet need.

This work helps drive industry-wide improvements in how tailings risk is understood, measured, and managed.

Gold Fields is a major sponsor of AMIRA International's P1217 collaborative research project, which is focused on predicting liquefaction risk.

The research will target poorly understood characteristics of TSFs, including their:

• varying states of saturation,
• high concentrations of fine particles, and
• physical changes with age (which occur through internal mechanical and geochemical processes).

The research will examine how each characteristic can be dealt with in assessments of liquefaction propensity.