The MOSA JV workforce has efficiently delivering the third and last bench of a posh retaining wall at Newmont Company’s gold mining operations on Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea. The JV is a partnership between French building main VINCI-owned firm Spiecapag together with sister firm Menard Oceania.
The corporate mentioned the distinctive and extremely technical venture has enabled protected entry to present mining batters. Over the course of 46 months, the workforce put in 1,315 floor anchors and 4,425 m of waler beam. The venture had no time misplaced to damage with roughly 2.3 million hours labored
Formally generally known as the Lihir Floor Stabilisation Venture, it was a first-of a-kind, and extremely technical venture consisting of securing a benched retaining wall with cabled power anchors in a geothermally
energetic setting to allow gold mining operations to proceed within the adjoining pit.
Good Shafts Worldwide (PSI) was engaged as a labour service subcontractor to produce skilled supervisors and drillers to enrich the venture’s workforce underneath the administration of MOSA JV Ltd to help with common floor assist and the drilling of anchor holes to a depth of 60 m with casing within the geothermal space of the mine utilizing newest know-how Hutte 610 drilling machines. This kind of venture had by no means been carried out on this setting in PNG earlier than.
PSI equipped skilled personnel in different areas of the venture together with concrete spraying, metal fixing, anchor set up, grouting, upkeep and rock bolt drilling and set up in environmentally difficult situations.
