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GR finishes FY2020 on a
high note

GR Engineering Services Ltd capped an
impressive FY2020 with the award of two
key EPC contracts from Saracen Mineral
Holdings Ltd and Salt Lake Potash Ltd.
In what will be the company’s third pro-
ject for Saracen in the past two years, GR
will design, supply, install and commission
a new paste backfill plant at the Thunder-
box gold operation under an EPC contract
valued at $22 million.
GR has also been awarded an approved
variation to an existing contract at the lead-
ing gold producer’s nearby Carosue Dam
operation to install a paste pump at the Ka-
rari plant which will distribute paste to the
Sandvik has revived the Toro name for its underground fleet
Whirling Dervish underground mine, valued
Sandvik bringing back the Toro LH625iE loader builds on proven at $7 million.
Continuing a relationship that began in
technology and features the i-Series intel-
the bull ligence needed for connectivity and digital early 2019, GR is now officially entrenched
solutions. as the key contracting partner for Salt Lake
Sandvik is reintroducing the trademark Potash at the Lake Way project, also in
Toro family name to its fleet of underground Western Australia.
hard rock loaders and trucks. MACA strikes fresh deal GR has been awarded an EPC contract
The Toro model – also referred to as “the with Atlas for the provision of plant, labour, materials
bull” – was well recognised by underground and construction services at the proposed
mining customers since it was first intro- MACA Ltd is set to continue its long as- process plant and NPI at Lake Way, valued
duced in the early 1970s. However, it has sociation with Atlas Iron Pty Ltd following at $85 million. A separate EPCM contract
not been seen for the past 15 years. the award of a mining services contract valued at $22 million has also been signed.
Sandvik’s large intelligent loaders Toro for Corunna Downs, about 33km south of These two contracts represent more than
LH517i and Toro LH621i will be the first to Marble Bar. 40% of the total project capital requirement.
feature the return of the family name which The contract scope for open-pit mining
will encompass a motto of “safer, stronger, services will include drilling and blasting, QRC tick of approval for
smarter” for a new generation. and loading and hauling and is expected
Also brandishing the Toro name will be to generate about $230 million for MACA BHP coal investment
Sandvik’s 51t and 63t trucks. Both have over the 62-month term. This is on top of an
benefitted from several significant design existing contract for civil works at Corunna The Queensland Resources Council
upgrades including new transmission, Downs. (QRC) has welcomed BHP Mitsubishi Al-
heavy-duty coolers, AutoMine for trucks MACA’s total work-in-hand position now liance’s proposed $100 million investment
with on-surface navigation possibility and stands at $2.2 billion. in autonomous haulage trucks at the Dau-
an ongoing Stage V engine trial. The Perth-based contractor is also pro- nia coal mine in the Bowen Basin.
The fifth model which will acquire the tra- viding crushing services for Atlas at Mt Some 34 new Caterpillar trucks will be
ditional family name is the world’s largest Webber, having previously been contract- rolled out from February next year.
payload capacity underground loader, Toro ed for various work at Pardoo, Mt Dove, QRC chief executive Ian Macfarlane
LH625iE. Featuring a 25t payload capacity Abydos and Wodgina over the years. said the Queensland coal industry was an
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