Xrosswater
Xrosswater floating walkway crossing a mine tailings dam

Industrial marine · ISO quality control

Built for water,
built to last.

Floating walkways, pontoons, docks, piers, jetties and platforms for mine tailings dams, wetlands and dredging. Manufactured in USA and Europe, available worldwide.

Walkway designs

Project references across 5 continents.

Debswana Shell Oil Sands Newcrest Red Chris Taseko Florence Copper Marafiq Albian Sands Energy Paterson & Cooke Debswana Shell Oil Sands Newcrest Red Chris Taseko Florence Copper Marafiq Albian Sands Energy Paterson & Cooke

15,000 m

of walkway delivered

25+

projects completed

13

countries

5

continents

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01  / Why Xrosswater

Industrial first.
Never a leisure dock in disguise.

Most walkways on mine sites are pump-barge add-ons, plastic leisure cubes or one-off steel builds. Xrosswater only builds industrial floating walkways, and it shows in six places.

01

500 m

per 40 ft container

Ships like no other walkway

Supplied in component form, 500 m × 1.5 m of walkway travels in a single 40 ft container. Freight that takes others a convoy of trucks arrives as one box.

02

pH 2–12

acid to alkaline

Made for water that eats steel

FRP, 316 stainless and aluminium with unsinkable HDPE floats. No foam, no polystyrene, no plastic cubes that crack in UV or tailings.

03

R 13

non-slip deck, DIN 51130

Safety infrastructure for tailings

Tailings standards demand safe, routine access to pumps, penstocks and decant points. A stable 1.5 m wide deck replaces improvised catwalks and boats.

04

13

countries, 5 continents

Delivered where others can't

Lifted by helicopter into the Amazon, trucked up ice roads in Arctic Canada, built at the edge of the Sahara. Remote sites are the normal job.

05

100%

walkway specialists

Works with your pump and your engineer

We build walkways, not pump barges. The walkway carries the pumps, pipes and cables you choose, alongside consulting engineers such as Paterson & Cooke.

06

Re-melt

value at end of life

Value that comes back

Aluminium keeps a recoverable re-melt value and every section can be dismantled and reused, so site clean-up costs stay low after the job.

Only 67% of the 836 tailings facilities run by ICMM members fully met the global tailings safety standard by August 2025. Safe, stable access to the pond is part of closing that gap.

Source: ICMM Tailings Progress Report 2025
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Built for the water,
not the marina.

One modular walkway that configures into a pontoon, floating dock, pier, jetty, barge or platform. Stainless, aluminium and FRP combined for unrivalled resistance.

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01

01

Floats

Unsinkable HDPE cells, never polyethylene foam or polystyrene. About 850 kg of buoyancy per 3 m × 1.5 m section.

01  FloatsXrosswater FloatsXrosswater Aluminium frameXrosswater FRP grating deckXrosswater Stainless handrailsXrosswater Pivot couplers
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03  / Applications

Engineered for tailings dams, dredging and corrosive water.

Long Xrosswater walkway across a dry diamond tailings dam in Botswana

Fig. 01

Mine tailings dams

Stable, safe work surfaces across tailings ponds. Replaces unstable catwalks and carries pumps, penstock platforms and pipework.

Xrosswater walkway with yellow handrails on open water

Fig. 02

Marine dredging

The folding pivot walkway bends to follow the dredger. A 20,000 kg pull load on the dredging pivot keeps the structure intact.

Walkway over fast-moving water at the Marafiq plant weir in Saudi Arabia

Fig. 03

Wetlands and corrosive water

FRP and stainless steel withstand acids, alkaline water, petroleum and UV. Proven in an oil clean-up deep in the Peruvian Amazon.

Also for

Mine storage facilitiesReturn water damsIndustrial marine
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Tough enough for tailings. Proven on five continents.

From high UV to pH between 2 and 12, from −40 °C to +40 °C. Xrosswater is the walkway that lasts where others corrode.

Technical x-ray view of a Xrosswater pontoon section

07  / Projects

Previous projects completed worldwide.

25+ projects · 13 countries · 5 continents

Pacific OceanAtlantic OceanIndian OceanCanadaUSAPeruSierra LeoneNigeriaAlgeriaItalyAustriaTurkeySaudi ArabiaThailandNamibiaZambiaMozambiqueZimbabweBotswanaSouth Africa
Xrosswater walkway leading out to the pump at Red Chris MinePivot walkway at the Shell oil sands dredging operation in CanadaXrosswater pivot walkway in snow at a uranium mine in Northern CanadaWalkway section being craned into the research paddock in AlbertaAerial view of the Xrosswater walkway at Florence Copper, ArizonaHelicopter lifting Xrosswater crates in the Peruvian AmazonPenstock platform at the end of the walkway on a Botswana tailings damXrosswater jetty on the Namibian coastPenstock platform under assembly at the heavy metal mine in South AfricaLocal team laying out Xrosswater sections at the iron ore mine in Sierra LeoneAluminium pump frame on the Algerian reservoir walkwayXrosswater walkway on a mountain tailings pond in TurkeyInstalled walkway at the Marafiq plant in Saudi Arabia
Northern British Columbia300 m

01 · Canada

Red Chris Mine, Newcrest JV

300 m walkway plus a 6 m deep × 300 m tailings barrier to keep sediment out of the pump. Designed, supplied, assembled and installed in only 10 weeks.

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Different water. Same walkway.

A copper mine in Arizona. A diamond mine in Botswana. An oil clean-up in the Amazon. One modular walkway, configured for each site and shipped in a container.

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Point-cloud scan of a Xrosswater floating walkway crossing a tailings dam to a pump platform

Next step

We start on
your water.

One spec / One container / Yours to keep