SSR Mining (NASDAQ:SSRM) +1.3% pre-market Thursday after saying the February 2024 heap leach failure at its Çöpler gold mine in Turkey was caused by a design flaw in the third-party engineered ...

SSR Mining (Nasdaq, TSX: SSRM; ASX: SSR) says an independent review of last year’s heap leach failure at the Çöpler gold mine in eastern Turkey has revealed a third-party engineered design ...

SSR Mining Inc. (Nasdaq/TSX: SSRM; ASX: SSR) (“SSR Mining” or the “Company”) provides an update on the February 13, 2024 incident at Çöpler (the “Çöpler Incident”).

SSR says a study has shown that the tragic heap leach pad slide in Turkey last February was probably the result of faulty design engineering by a third party.

(CNI), an international mining consulting firm, concluded that the design overestimated the shear strength properties of the liner system at the base of the heap leach pad. This led to inflated ...