Project Summary

Client
Upland Contracting

Budget
$5 Million

Services
Quality Management

Market
Infrastructure

Project Description

The Myra Falls mine is located approximately 90 kilometres from Campbell River, on Vancouver Island. It is the only mine in in British Columbia to exist within a provincial park.

The mine had been deactivated since 2007, and the mine owner, Nyrstar, upgraded structures both above and below surface to reactivate the mine. Upland Contracting was awarded the contract to provide seismic upgrading to the tailing pond by building additional foundations and raise the current dam by 6 meters, including placing over 300,000 cubic meters of Suitable Type A material as dam fill and upgrading the drainage system on the tailings pond.

Our Role

RAM was retained by Upland Contracting to assist with Site Supervision and Quality Control (QC) Management.  Our scope of work included:

  • IFC design review;
  • Site supervision and quality control inspections;
  • Attending weekly production meetings with the project owner and Engineer of Record.
  • The crew consisted of various heavy equipment operators, surveyors and general laborers; RAM provided supervision for all shifts.

Project Highlights

A key challenge for this project was to place a large amount of fill within project schedule constraints, but this was met with success: the crew placed over 300,000 cubic meters of suitable Type A material as dam fill, and additionally, upgraded the Tailings Pond Drainage System.