I'm betting it's for the drying/storage facility needed. One of the advantages of dry stack method, is the tailings can be easily and temporarily stored in a protected facility (like a warehouse). I imagine the ground would need to be tested for the weight of the temporary tailing storage AND for the facility which does the actual drying. Seems pretty straight forward to understand the ground on which one is going to place a new foundation.
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