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to provide a range of mining services, work for an agreed term of five years Thyssenkrupp Industrial at BHP Ltd’s
including drilling, blasting, loading, haul- from the start date, a minimum supply of $US4.6 billion South Flank iron ore pro-
ing, dumping and mineral processing for 20MW daily power to meet all of Arca- ject in the Pilbara.
the operation. dia’s power supply requirements and an The scope of the pre-assembly con-
This life-of-mine contract extension option for an additional 25MW of supply tract is for two stackers and one off-re-
will see BGC providing services up to the in the event of further expansion of the claim machine, to be undertaken at the
end of operations at the Mt Webber mine facility of downstream processing. Australian Marine Complex in Hender-
site, currently scheduled for June 2022. ACM currently holds two special son, south of Perth. These will be the
grants containing a total 245,000ha and largest rail-mounted stacker/reclaim ma-
NRW locked in to is awaiting the final approvals on a third chines to be installed in the world, with a
asset.
loading capacity of 20,000 tph.
pre-strip Koodaideri Arcadia’s primary source of power Work is expected to be completed by
supply is from the national grid which is the end of the current financial year. Up
NRW Holdings Ltd has been awarded owned and operated by the Zimbabwe to 60 direct positions will be created over
the Koodaideri mine pre-strip contract by Electricity Transmission & Distribution the contract period.
Rio Tinto Ltd. Company, with its main power distribu- Thyssenkrupp was awarded a supply
The contract scope includes develop- tion lines running adjacent to the project, and installation contract for the balance
ment of initial mining pre-strip and earth- some 15km away. machines last November.
works infrastructure to enable the start of Primero’s committed order book for
mining operations. FY2020 currently stands at around $90
Other works include mobilisation and Primero’s balancing act million. The company had a similar value
site establishment, clearing and strip- Primero Group Ltd will oversee the of committed works at the same time last
ping topsoil and subsoil, drill and blast pre-assembly of balance machines for financial year.
operations, pre-strip mining operations,
construction of access roads, haul roads
and in-pit facilities, bulk earthworks and Prospect has identified a potential power supplier for its Arcadia lithium project in Zimbabwe
drainage construction.
The contract is valued at circa $95
million and is expected to run for about
78 weeks, with works due to begin next
month. At its peak, there will be over 150
site-based personnel required.

Strong prospect of

power supply at Arcadia
Prospect Resources Ltd has signed a
non-binding MoU with African Continen-
tal Minerals (Private) Ltd for the supply
of power to the Arcadia lithium project in
Zimbabwe.
The agreement provides Prospect with
power supply optionality for the project,
while also generating opportunities for
additional services/projects, such as
ACM’s soon-to-be-developed coalbed
methane gas-to-power project.
Key terms of the MoU provided frame-

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