Lisheen Mining, a joint venture between Minorco and Ivernia, has picked Kvaerner Cementation of Ireland to supply the zinc-lead concentrator for the treatment of underground ore from the Lisheen base metal mine in Ireland’s Tipperary Cty.
The $49-million contract was awarded on a fixed-price turn-key basis, with a takeover completion date of late July 1999. Contract work includes a coarse-ore storage building, concentrator building, pump house, electrical substation, fuelling depot and tailings distribution/water reclamation systems, as well as the basic engineering for the tailings thickener, backfill plant and zinc concentrate leaching circuit.
Kvaerner Cementation, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Kvaerner Group, will be responsible for the project’s management, design, procurement, construction and commissioning of the 1.5-million-tonne-per-year concentrator and associated infrastructure. Lisheen had already selected Kvaerner to develop and construct the Lisheen mine for Lisheen Mining.
Kvaerner Cementation will undertake all site activities related to the plant, while sister company Kvaerner Metals Davy will be responsible for the design and supply aspects on a sub-contracted basis.
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