Modern Mining April 2020

CONTRACTING

Reinforcing a multi-disciplinary contracting legacy Following a period of restructuring in 2019, Group CEO of M&D

Construction Rukesh Raghubir tells Modern Mining that the company is now strategically positioned to compete in niche projects with higher barriers to entry, including in the demanding mining and metals infrastructure market.

A s a multi-disciplinary contractor with more than 35 years of experience, M&D Construction Group has in recent years established a formidable pres- ence in the mining and metals infrastructure in the SADC region. Certainly, one of the group’s milestone mining infrastructure projects is a R300-million contract to build various civil structures, access roads, parking, kerbing, concrete pavements and drainage for Black Mountain Mining’s Gamsberg Concentrator Project in Aggeneys. Vedanta Zinc International’s ambitious Gamsberg

Yolanda Sedibe and Rukesh Raghubir are part of the M&D Construction Group’s board of directors. project will be one of the most digitally advanced new mines in Africa and will exploit one of the larg- est known, undeveloped zinc orebodies in the world. Gamsberg has a reserve and resource of

One of the group’s milestone mining infrastructure projects is a R300-million contract to build various civil structures for Black Mountain Mining’s Gamsberg Concentrator Project.

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