Drillcon Scandinavia AB says it has signed a brand new settlement with Boliden Zinkgruvan for raiseboring companies on the operation in Sweden.
The task consists of drilling a air flow shaft with a diameter of 4.1 m and a complete size of 180 m. The work is scheduled to start this quarter and is predicted to be accomplished by the top of the March quarter of 2026.
Patrik Rylander, President & CEO of Drillcon AB, says: “We’re proud to as soon as once more have earned the belief of a long-term associate. This demonstrates that our give attention to security and progressive options provides worth for sustainable and environment friendly long-term mining of minerals and metals.”
The Zinkgruvan operations embody an underground mine and a concentrator with related infrastructure. The concentrator has two processing traces, a zinc line with a capability of roughly 1.5 Mt/y and a copper line that may course of each copper ore and zinc-lead ore.
The zinc mine is within the southern a part of Bergslagen at an enormous zinc-lead deposit, which extends over greater than 5,000 m and all the way down to a depth of 1,400 m. The ore our bodies are 3-40 m thick and consist primarily of sphalerite (zinc ore) and galena (lead ore).
The mine has a excessive diploma of automation and primarily makes use of a mixture of longitudinal and transverse long-hole mining. The exhausted rock cavities are backfilled with paste and cement, or waste rock, Boliden says.
