FLSmidth has signed a DKK950 million contract with ShalkiyaZinc to produce mineral processing tools, including mill circuit pumps, for a greenfield zinc-lead concentrator at its zinc and lead mine within the Kyzylorda area of Kazakhstan.
The equipment will rework the plant into a world-class facility that efficiently separates minerals with a minimised environmental influence.
FLSmidth will supply two underground crushing stations with a supplies handling system to the process plant, a full package of comminution and separation tools, including SAG and ball mills, mill circuit pumps and cyclones, the zinc-lead focus flotation and regrinding circuit, together with nextSTEP, VXP vertical mills, focus thickeners, and Pneumapress filters, reagents preparation and dosing area. Full plant automation can be included, in addition to installation and commissioning supervision providers. The new concentrator shall be supported from FLSmidth’s new service supercentre in Karaganda.
Equipment delivery might be completed throughout 2024, with commissioning set to start by the end of that yr.
“We are excited to receive this first order from ShalkiyaZinc, which highlights our full flowsheet experience,” says Mikko Keto, Group CEO at FLSmidth. “ เกจวัดน้ำยาแอร์refco of apparatus included within the order will help ShalkiyaZinc save on each CAPEX and OPEX; our new nextSTEP flotation expertise will improve the standard of the concentrates, the SAG mill will present extra flexibility, while the automation and digital options will additional enable water and energy financial savings alongside safer operations.”
“After testing and primary design work executed by FLSmidth, we are happy to enter this new phase of collaboration with the procurement of crucial applied sciences to improve the productiveness and sustainability of our plant,” says Assel Rakhimova, chief project director of Tau-Ken Samruk. “We consider in successful execution and sit up for receiving the ordered tools based on the schedule for set up and to proceed working with FLSmidth on commissioning services and spare parts.”
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