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120,000 tpa will be processed through One of the contracts pertains to an exist- Portal (PNP).
ENAMI’s Vallenar plant, about 15km north ing framework agreement with BHP Ltd for A five-year underground mining contract
of Productora, over a two-year period. An the dewatering of surplus water at Mining has been awarded to PNP for the new
option exists to extend the agreement by a Area C. On top of that contract addition, Cassini nickel mine where early surface
further year. the group will also provide civil, structural, works were recently completed. A three-
Productora JV company CMP will also mechanical, piping and marine services at year contract with a two-year option was
be paid $US2/t of ore processed and a BHP’s mine site and port operations in the also signed for the Northern operations,
10% royalty for the sale value of extracted Pilbara. including the brownfields Durkin North and
minerals. A three-year contract has been signed Long nickel mines.
ENAMI is anticipating a production with Rio Tinto Ltd for the provision of main- Mincor said all key components of the
grade of at least 1% copper given previous tenance services and minor projects on its contract are in line with the parameters set
historical processing of higher grade ore Pilbara marine infrastructure. out of the company’s nickel restart strategy
from Productora. Monadelphous has also secured one- completed in March. This was based on an
Mining is expected to start within three year extensions to its two existing fixed initial five-year operation from two produc-
months of the granting of necessary ex- plant maintenance and shutdown crane tion centres with all ore processed at BHP
ploitation permits, with first revenue likely services contracts with Fortescue Metals Nickel West’s Kambalda nickel concentra-
in Q4 2020. Group Ltd. tor and the resulting nickel concentrate
In PNG, the company has been awarded sold to BHP.
Sicomines set for Outotec a new three-year contract to provide minor services and equipment hire group Eme-
PNP – acquired by ASX-listed mining
capital project services, including civil, me-
tune-up chanical, structural, piping and blast and co Holdings Ltd earlier this year – has a
paint at Newcrest Mining Ltd’s gold mining workforce of more than 300 people and a
Outotec is set to roll out a copper sol- operations on Lihir Island where Monadel- strong customer base ranging from top-
vent extraction technology programme at phous has been active since 2017. tier to junior miners.
the Sicomines JV operation, near Kolwezi The group has over 120 pieces of spe-
in the DRC. cialised mining equipment, including tele-
The contracted scope of work includes PNP on board for remote control and auto-guidance equip-
basic engineering, technology and equip- Mincor’s nickel restart ment, and over 300 items of infrastructure
ment deliveries and advisory services for equipment.
mechanical installation, as well as com- Mincor Resources NL’s bid to resume
missioning and start-up of the modular nickel production in Kambalda has taken
VSF-X copper solvent extraction plant. a major step forward with the appointment
Meanwhile, Outotec has concluded an of Kalgoorlie-based underground mining Mincor has awarded an underground mining
agreement to sell certain municipal and in- services and equipment hire group Pit N contract to Kalgoorlie-based Pit N Portal for
dustrial sludge incineration plant technolo- the new Cassini nickel mine
gies to Germany’s Küttner Martin Technol-
ogy GMBH.
Outotec said the transaction entails
technology and references, but did not dis-
close its value.
Iron ore majors put faith

in Monadelphous

Monadelphous Group Ltd has signed
multiple construction and maintenance
contracts valued at circa $150 million with
the three largest iron ore players in West-
ern Australia.

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