Australia-headquartered Xstrata Copper, a commodity business unit of Xstrata (XTA-L) has commissioned electrical manufacturer and supplier, Siemens to supply electrical equipment for an undisclosed copper mine in South America.
The contract, worth more than $47.3 million, will include motors and drive systems for a semi-autogenous grinding (SAG) mill and two ball mills with the associated power supply equipment.
The German engineering company, will be responsible for manufacturing and delivering parts for the ore mills to the project.
The SAG mill will feature a gearless drive with an output of 21 MW. The ball mills will also have gearless drives with outputs of 16.4 MW each.
In addition to drives, Siemens will also supply transformers, protection equipment and human-machine interface equipment.
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