Engineering for a heavy mineral concentrate treatment facility and a mineral separation plant

Bemax Resources Limited awarded Ausenco the lump sum contract for the design and construction of a 575,000 tpa heavy mineral concentrate (HMC)  treatment facility at the Ginkgo Mine site and the design and construction of the mineral separation plant located at Broken Hill.  These two plants are located at different project sites and were executed simultaneously.

Our scope included responsibility for all engineering for process plant and infrastructure, procurement, and construction management sercices for the processing plant.  We also undertook permitting, global procurement and logistics, and constrution management and commissioning for the facility.

Project Highlights

• HMC plant completed two months prior to ore becoming availanble
• First major project for many years in the Broken Hill region.