SSR Mining, thanks to an independent review report commissioned Call & Nicholas (CNI) of a heap leach failure it suffered at the Çöpler operation, now knows the most likely cause was a deeply-rooted flaw in the third-party engineered design of the heap leach pad. The review found that the assessment of the test data overestimated the shear strength properties of…
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