Modern Mining May 2017

CRUSHING, SCREENING AND MILLING

provider, not just an equipment supplier and can provide real benefits to our customers by combining our considerable resources in South Africa with the expertise of Metso engineers around the world,” he observes. The Metso group is headquartered in Finland but operates globally and has a workforce of around 11 000 people in more than 50 coun- tries. It operates over a range of industries but mining is a prime market, accounting for just over half of all sales. Its products for mining include mills, crushers, screens, bulk materi- als handling systems and process equipment. Metso is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki and in 2016 had total sales of approximately Euro 2,6 billion. 

Another view of the HRC™ 3000, which has a total installed power of 11 400 kW and a total installed weight of 900 tons.

Two big African orders for primary crushers secured Big mining projects are currently thin on the ground in Africa – which is why Metso South Africa can take satisfaction from securing two major – and keenly contested – contracts in the mining field recently.

and three stirred media detritors with two being the SMD-355 TM model and one the SMD-90 TM model. The second major contract won is for the supply of a primary gyratory crusher (PG54/75 Superior model) and a C150 primary jaw crusher to Newmont’s Ahafo site in Ghana, where both a plant expansion and an underground expansion known as the Subika Underground mine have been approved. 

One of the projects is Vedanta’s Gamsberg zinc project in the Northern Cape where Metso has won the supply of the primary jaw crusher, a C200™ model, a pebble crusher, an HP3 model,

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