JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Engineering solutions provider ELB’s Engineering Services subsidiary has been appointed by Black Mountain Mining, a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources, to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services at the Gamsberg zinc project, in the Northern Cape.
The company will oversee the construction of the process, power and water plants at the project.
Gamsberg is a greenfield zinc mine, comprising an opencast mine, ore beneficiation plant and associated infrastructure.
It is one of the largest known zinc deposits globally and Vedanta will invest about $400-million in developing the first phase of the openpit zinc mine, concentrator plant and associated infrastructure.
The first phase will produce 250 000 t/y of zinc metal-in-concentrate.
Edited by: Chanel de Bruyn
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor Online
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