Modern Mining January 2019

ZINC

few problems with meeting delivery dates. The key business partners in developing Gamsberg have been ELB Engineering Services, which in late 2016 was appointed as EPC con- tractor for the processing facility (and related infrastructure including the power and water supply), and Moolmans, appointed at the same

VZI’s VP Projects (who was previously GM of Skorpion), said that all of Vedanta’s ‘business partners’ on the Gamsberg development had contributed to the reduction in capital costs. He also noted the benefits of building the project in a downcycle, which meant that ten- dered prices were keen and that suppliers had

A night view of the process- ing plant. The plant incor- porates – for the first time in Africa and the first time globally on a zinc project – Staged Flotation Reactor (SFR) technology.

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Deshnee Naidoo (fifth from left) and members of the Gamsberg teamwith the first concentrate shipment ready for despatch.

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