Deploying a geosynthetic mattress ballast layer at an ore-processing site

FIGURE 1 GBL installed on the side slope and suitably ballasted with UV-resistant sandbags and rope. The GBL is white due to the exposed nonwoven geotextile stitched to the underlying black woven geotextile. New applications of geosynthetics are being found that form from overlaps of existing functions, such as protection, separation, filtration and [...]