New major Minerals orders since October 2008

Copper mine to resume operation in British Columbia
Copper Mountain Mining Corporation plans to restart its open pit mine near Princeton in British Columbia, Canada. Since 1996, the mine and processing plant have been kept on a ‘care and maintenance’ basis. Now, a project has been approved to reestablish the site and develop the mine’s capacity to produce approximately 100 million pounds of copper per year.

FLSmidth Minerals has signed a contract to design and supply a gyratory crusher, a SAG mill and two ball mills for the Copper Mountain Project. The mill will be designed to handle a daily throughput of 35,000 tonnes of copper ore. The contract comprises detailed engineering and design, manufacturing and procurement of equipment including QA/QC reporting and testing.

Production start-up is scheduled for December 2010.

Chinalco invests in Peruvian copper mine
Aluminum Corporation of China (CHINALCO) is investing heavily in Peru’s rapidly expanding copper producing industry. Its subsidiary, Minera Chinalco Peru, is developing a mine in the Morococha district about 140 kilometres east of the Peruvian capital, Lima. The mine is expected to produce 210,000 tonnes of copper a year by 2012. The Toromocho copper mine project includes crushing and grinding equipment to be provided by FLSmidth Minerals.

The scope of FLSmidth Minerals’ contract with Chinalco includes detailed engineering and design as well as manufacturing and supply of a gyratory crusher, two Excel 1100 cone crushers, a SAG mill and two ball mills. The grinding mills will be among the world’s largest. The crusher and mills will be delivered to the site before the end of 2010. When it reaches full production capacity, the SAG mill will be grinding more than 5,000 tonnes of copper ore per hour.

Chinalco is China’s biggest producer of metal. It is the world’s second-largest aluminium producer and is committed to becoming an international polymetallic mining company

Sulphides copper project to feature some the world’s largest mills
FLSmidth Minerals has signed a contract to supply a SAG mill and three ball mills to a minerals producer in the CIS region for its sulphide copper process. The SAG mill will grind over 3,500 tonnes of copper ore per hour when it reaches full production.

The contract comprises not only detailed engineering and design, but also the actual manufacture and supply of equipment. The equipment will be delivered successively until the end of 2011.

Leading Indian steel producer expands
Tata Steel is expanding its Jamshedpur steelworks in India from 6.8 million tonnes to 10 million tonnes crude steel per year. FLSmidth Minerals is participating in this project, having signed a contract to supply drying and grinding equipment for a new 6 million tonnes per year iron ore pellet plant at the steelworks.

FLSmidth Minerals will provide not only basic design, but also detailed engineering and design, manufacturing, supply and supervision of two rotary dryers, two ball mills with 2 x 6000 kW drives, two separators and four FLSmidth Airtech baghouses. The expansion of the Jamshedpur Works is scheduled for completion in 2010.

Tata Steel is the 6th largest steel producer in the world with an existing annual capacity of 30 million tonnes of crude steel. It is a highly diversified Group, both geographically and in terms of product range. Its vision is to be the global steel industry benchmark for both value creation and corporate citizenship.

German sectional steel producer modernises
Hoesch Spundwand und Profil GmbH (HSP) of Dortmund, Germany is modernising its plant to meet the high demand for high-quality steel sheet piles. These are steel sections used in civil engineering projects to retain earth or prevent seepage for example in harbours and canals, building construction and roadbuilding.

FLSmidth Minerals will utilise the expertise in material handling systems which it has acquired in recent years to provide much of the equipment needed for modernising the sectional steel plant. This includes a roll stand, a saw and associated conveying systems consisting of roller tables, cross transfer and roll changing devices, spindle carriers and movable guide frames. The scope of the contract also includes civil work, electrical, hydraulic and automation equipment.

Commissioning of the equipment supplied by FLSmidth is scheduled for late 2010.

World-leading phosphate producer orders grinding mills
South Africa-based Foskor Limited, one of the world’s largest producers of phosphate and phosphoric acid, has awarded FLSmidth Minerals an order for the design, manufacture and supply of a rod mill and a grate discharge ball mill. The contract was won under tight competition, and FLSmidth’s offer for an open ended mill ultimately proved to be the differentiating factor. The initial sizing suggested that a conventional trunnion supported ball mill would not fulfil the discharge capacity needs, so an open-ended design typical of the South African gold industry was offered.

The grinding mill forms part of Foskor’s Extension 8 debottlenecking project at its Phalaborwa facilities in South Africa. It will restore throughput capacity of Extension 8 to its design level of 5.2 million tonnes per annum. This brownfield project involves the construction of a new 250 t/h comminution and classification circuit that will be fully integrated into the process facility to make use of the surplus flotation capacity left by the existing under performing milling circuit.