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ABB has signed a $50-million contract with Chinalco’s Peruvian subsidiary to power the latter’s plant at the Toromocho copper-silvermolybdenum mine in Peru.
Toromocho, located at an altitude of 4,500 metres in the Andes, is a staple to the Morococha mining district, 140 km east of Lima.
The processing plant that ABB will supply technology and automation for is expected to produce 1 million tonnes of copper concentrate annually and silver-moly trioxide byproducts.
For the project, ABB will supply the 23-kilovolt main switchgear, unit substations and distribution transformers, prefabricated electrical rooms containing medium and low voltage switchgear, variable speed drives and motor control centres. The plant-wide process automation system will use the Extended Automation System 800xA.
Last year, ABB supplied three gearless mill-drive systems to the project.
Toromocho had been owned by Peru Copper until 2007, when Chinalco acquired the company for US$860 million.
ABB operates in 100 countries worldwide and employs 117,000.
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