Posted by Paul Moore on twenty third April 2024
Murray & Roberts has introduced that its subsidiary Terra Nova Applied sciences, Inc (TNT), in three way partnership with Ingeniería y Construcción Sigdo Koppers SA, has been awarded an engineering, procurement and development (EPC) contract with a big copper producer for a mine in South America. The contract worth is roughly US$200 million, with TNT’s share within the three way partnership being 51%.
The scope of labor features a major crushing facility, a 6.3 km lengthy overland conveyor, a 23 kV energy transmission system, and related infrastructure. Beginning in April 2024, the undertaking is predicted to have a length of 27 months. M&R stated: “This vital award reinforces TNT’s sturdy functionality to ship full EPC materials dealing with techniques in Latin America and is a welcome order for the enterprise who needed to rebuild its order guide for the reason that finish of COVID, as restricted supplies dealing with alternatives got here to market throughout this era.”
TNT, headquartered in California, supplies supplies dealing with design, consulting providers, design/provide sourcing, and normal contracting to the mining and minerals processing and different bulk supplies industries all through the world. TNT was acquired by Cementation Americas in 2019 and was a robust contributor to M&R earnings within the yr previous to the pandemic.
The first crushing facility shall be a modular major gyratory station and follows the profitable execution of an analogous undertaking at BHP’s Spence mine in Chile. For the forthcoming in-pit crushing & conveying report in IM‘s Could version, TNT’s Director of Enterprise Growth, Paul Emerson commented: “Certainly one of TNT’s key developments has been the development of their modular major gyratory crushing stations. These stations, designed for flexibility and effectivity, will be put in rapidly in giant, prefabricated modules. Mine operators have the choice to decide on between mounted or semi-mobile relocatable models, offering the perfect steadiness between the soundness of conventional mounted installations and the flexibleness of absolutely cell techniques – each well-suited for longer mine life functions and high-volume throughputs.”
On the stacking entrance, TNT is at the moment finishing the development and commissioning of a high-capacity Tremendous Transportable® stacking system in Arizona and has not too long ago commenced engineering on a undertaking that can characteristic a stacking system comprising a number of overland conveyors, a cell overland tripper, and a big stacking system consisting of twenty-one items of propriety Tremendous Transportable® cell stacking gear.
This technique is designed to facilitate the processing of an estimated 90,000 t/d of crushed copper ore inside a big multi-lift heap leach stacking pad, and is basically the identical know-how that TNT would utilise for prime capability waste stacking related to IPCC techniques. Moreover, TNT is constant to deal with the difference and growth of their high-capacity Tremendous Transportable® know-how into the filtered dry tails area, contemplating the added advantages of utilising the identical cell stacking gear to stack filtered tails for the co-disposal of waste rock.
By combining their a long time of expertise utilizing each high-capacity Tremendous Transportable® mine stacking techniques and their filtered tails expertise on the world’s largest multi-lift, twin absolutely redundant filtered tails stacking facility, TNT says it may possibly supply options which are primarily based on effectively confirmed know-how. Because the mining business continues to navigate the challenges of sustainability and environmental stewardship, TNT provides that its philosophy is to not solely assist the mining business’s financial objectives but in addition its environmental duties, demonstrating a steadiness between operational calls for and ecological issues.
