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Thiess wins $1.3 billion
Curragh extension

CIMIC Group’s global mining services
provider, Thiess, has been awarded a
six-year, $1.3 billion contract extension
by Coronado Global Resources Inc to
provide mining services at the Curragh
coal mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin.
Under the extension, Thiess will con-
tinue to provide overburden removal and
haulage, mining and run-of-mine rehan-
dling services, equipment maintenance
and pit dewatering.
In addition to this contract, Thiess will
continue delivery of its existing scope of
works, including the operation and main-
tenance of the client-owned 1,400t elec-
tric rope shovel and ultra-class trucking
fleet.
Thiess has a long record of service at
the metallurgical coal-rich mine, having
operated at the project since 2004. Thiess has won a six-year contract extension at the Curragh coal mine, valued at $1.3 billion
CIMIC companies Sedgman and UGL
also provide various operations and projects throughout Africa in the past five tion at the Prieska copper-zinc project in
maintenance contracts at Curragh. years valued at a combined $120 million, South Africa.
including Katanga Mining Rehabilitation in Both parties will seek to enter an alli-
the DRC. ancing agreement related to underground
CPC Engineering in APP’s JV partners are Advent Con- mining at Prieska, whereby Byrnecut will
Africa JV struction, Fenix Construction, Gear Min- provide underground mine development
ing Construction, Ignite Energy, Steel Ser- and production services, promote local
Perth-based CPC Engineering has en- vices and Allied Industries, Strutfast Cable employment and skills transfer, and col-
tered into a ground-breaking JV with multi- Management Solutions, and Power Plant laborate with local BEE enterprises.
ple African-focused companies to service Electrical Technologies. Formalising the agreement is one of the
the continent’s mining industry. CPC employs more than 300 people key project development milestones that
Africa Project Partnerships (APP) was and has a wealth of experience in Africa, followed the release of the positive BFS
formed to bring together companies with having successfully delivered multimillion- on Prieska in June, as well as last month’s
expertise across a range of disciplines dollar projects for graphite, nickel, copper grant of the Mining Right for the proposed
with the ability to deliver EPC and EPCM and diamond operations in Mozambique, 2.4 mtpa operation on the Northern Cape.
projects. The JV is working closely with Zambia, Ghana, DRC and South Africa.
the South African Government through its
Department of Trade and Industry and the BGC set to see out
Industrial Development Corporation. Brynecut at the starting Mt Webber
The companies in the APP JV have gate for Prieska
more than five decades of experience in BGC Contracting Pty Ltd has been
the mining industry and more than three Orion Minerals Ltd has concluded a awarded a life-of-mine extension to its
decades of experience in executing pro- MoU with Byrnecut Offshore Pty Ltd which contract at Atlas Iron Pty Ltd’s Mt Web-
jects across Africa. Together they em- envisages an alliancing agreement for un- ber iron ore mine in Western Australia.
ploy 1,100 people and have completed 15 derground mine development and produc- Under the contract, BGC will continue

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