Water & tailings
They fail for water. Too little to process with, too much behind a wall, or too contested to keep a licence. Grade tells you what a deposit is worth. Water tells you whether you will ever be allowed to mine it.
01 — Why water is the constraint
Water allocation, drawdown and discharge are the conditions most likely to delay or defeat a mine plan. In the copper and lithium belts the water case is now argued before the orebody is.
A tailings dam is a water-retaining structure. The catastrophic failures of the last decade were water management failures with a geotechnical trigger, and they are the events that end companies, not just projects.
GISTM conformance, CSRD, SEC climate disclosure and lender conditions all now require tailings and water reporting an operator has to be able to evidence continuously, not annually.
02 — Aquatasker
Aquatasker is a production water risk intelligence platform built for institutional investors, insurers and industrial operators. Its standards framework is maintained by Planet43 Pte Limited, and its water analytics are covered by filed PCT patent families. We bring it to the mine site.
Tailings module
A tailings facility is treated as what it physically is — a water structure — and monitored continuously, rather than as a geotechnical report filed months apart from the water data that belongs with it.
Site water risk
Multi-dimensional water exposure assessment across a site and its catchment, built to carry into the regulatory and lender disclosures an operator already has to produce.
Together with the ground intelligence layer, this closes the loop: what is in the ground, whether the ground will hold, and whether there is water to work it and consent to keep going.
03 — The standard
Downstream communities do not experience an orebody. They experience the water — its level, its quality, and whether the wall holds. Making that legible in real time, to the operator and to the people living below the dam, is the part of this work that justifies a public benefit corporation rather than an ordinary one.