Industry intelligence
Black Rock Mine in the Northern
Cape province of South Africa.
Multidisciplinary global engineering
firm DRA Global (DRA) has
secured an engineering, procurement,
construction and management
(EPCM) contract with Assmang’s
Black Rock Mine Operations in the
Northern Cape of South Africa.
The contract is for the replacement
of the Gloria manganese mine’s
underground rock handling
infrastructure and surface plant.
Assmang is jointly owned by African
Rainbow Minerals (ARM) and
Assore. The EPCM includes the
optimisation and modernisation of
the mine, which will provide further
flexibility to sustain the life of mine
production expectations through the
replacement of underground rock
handling infrastructure as well as a
new surface plant and its associated
infrastructure.
“Our history with the project,
from initial scoping phases through
to the feasibility study, makes
DRA the logical fit for project
implementation, and we are excited
to partner with Assmang once
again,” says JC Heslinga, senior
vice-president of projects at DRA.
The project completion and final
handover is expected late 2021.
[6] MINING MIRROR NOVEMBER 2018
DRA secures Assmang’s Gloria project
DRA will be responsible for the EPCM of
the project, with a focus on optimisation.
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