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Rio Tinto announces iron ore expansion
MARKET PROSPECTS as expansion of the site’s utilities, storage and loadout facilities.
Major coal project approved
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HP Billiton has announced approval of the DouglasMiddelburg Optimisation (DMO) Project in South Africa, with an expected capital investment of US$975 million. The DMO project scope includes utilising reserves across the Douglas and Middelburg Mine Services (MMS) collieries and development of new mining areas with low strip ratio coal, with product being fed into a new 14 Mtpa coal processing plant.
Rio Tinto announces iron ore expansion
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io Tinto has announced the approval of a US$475 million project to increase the Iron Ore Co of Canada’s (IOC) annual production of iron ore concentrate to 22 million tonnes. The investment is the first phase of an IOC expansion program that may see production capability increase 50% by 2011. Work will start immediately to expand IOC’s mining and processing facilities in Labrador West and increase transportation capacity on its 418 km railway to its port facilities in Sept-Îles, Québec. The investment includes the purchase of new mining equipment as well as the installation of a new crusher station in the mine and autogenous grinding mill in the concentrator and a 6 km overland conveyor to link them together.
BHP Billiton commissioned the prefeasibility study when a long-term mine production plan revealed that the current supply of fresh water will not be able to meet the estimated water requirements of 2900 litres per second.
CHEMICALS
Hydrogen peroxide capacity boost
Irrigation scheme for Venezuela
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rkema plans to double production capacity at its Leuna site in Germany, to 80 000 ton/year by mid2010 in a 40 million investment. Following the expansion in 2005 of its production capacities in North America (+20 000 ton/year), the doubling of capacity at the Shanghai plant in China, due to come on stream in the summer of 2008, and the 10% capacity increase at the Jarrie site in France, Arkema’s global hydrogen peroxide production capacity will reach 440 000 ton/year by mid-2010 when the Leuna expansion becomes operational.
Huntsman invests in MDI
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untsman Corp has started design and feasibility studies to increase its global capacity for the manufacture of methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) through investment in a new, world scale MDI plant at its site in Rozenburg, the Netherlands. A final investment decision is expected during 2008, with the new 400 000 metric tons capacity unit coming on-stream by mid-2011. The final plan may also incorporate the closure of older, less efficient capacity in Europe.
Hatch studies water recovery at Escondida mine
WATER & WASTE TREATMENT
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atch was recently retained by BHP Billiton Base Metals to execute a prefeasibility study at the Escondida copper mining facilities in northern Chile. The study will examine ways to improve water recovery from the tailings.
April 2008
capital improvement project to implement advanced nutrient removal processes and boost the plant’s wastewater treatment capacity to keep pace with Olathe’s growing population. The expansion is expected to triple the Cedar Creek plant’s existing capacity of three million gallons per day.
Engineer appointed for wastewater plant lack & Veatch has been selected by the city of Olathe, Kansas, USA, as the consulting engineer for the expansion of the Cedar Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant. Black & Veatch will provide engineering services for the initial study phase of the
NC-Lavalin has been awarded a US$597 million contract by Venezuela’s Instituto Nacional de Desarrollo Rural (INDER) to design and build an integrated irrigation system, supporting infrastructure and three small towns in the Tiznados district of the State of Guarico, about 300 km south of Caracas. The project is multi-faceted and includes the design and construction of a 12.8 km extension to an existing irrigation canal, as well as the design and construction of 14 km of secondary and 18 km of tertiary conduits or branches from the canal, associated infrastructure such as gates, farm intakes, all other water distribution systems required to serve 32 200 hectares of the Tiznados valley, and the installation of 10 000 hectares of in-farm irrigation with dripping and micro aspersion equipment.
Infrastructure support for wastewater system
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he Shaw Group’s Environmental & Infrastructure Group has been awarded a contract by DeKalb County, Georgia, USA, to provide the design, construction management and project management for a new wastewater interplant storage and conveyance system. Shaw’s five-year infrastructure services contract is valued at approximately US$20 million. Shaw will design the storage and conveyance system that will join the Snapfinger and Pole Bridge Creek wastewater treatment plants in southern DeKalb County. The system, which will include a tunnel that is five miles long and approximately 25 feet in diameter, will allow the transfer of sewage and/or treated effluent between each plant. The system will also include 50 million
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Major coal project approved
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HP Billiton has announced approval of the DouglasMiddelburg Optimisation (DMO) Project in South Africa, with an expected capital investment of US$975 million. The DMO project scope includes utilising reserves across the Douglas and Middelburg Mine Services (MMS) collieries and development of new mining areas with low strip ratio coal, with product being fed into a new 14 Mtpa coal processing plant.
Rio Tinto announces iron ore expansion
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io Tinto has announced the approval of a US$475 million project to increase the Iron Ore Co of Canada’s (IOC) annual production of iron ore concentrate to 22 million tonnes. The investment is the first phase of an IOC expansion program that may see production capability increase 50% by 2011. Work will start immediately to expand IOC’s mining and processing facilities in Labrador West and increase transportation capacity on its 418 km railway to its port facilities in Sept-Îles, Québec. The investment includes the purchase of new mining equipment as well as the installation of a new crusher station in the mine and autogenous grinding mill in the concentrator and a 6 km overland conveyor to link them together.
BHP Billiton commissioned the prefeasibility study when a long-term mine production plan revealed that the current supply of fresh water will not be able to meet the estimated water requirements of 2900 litres per second.
CHEMICALS
Hydrogen peroxide capacity boost
Irrigation scheme for Venezuela
A
S
rkema plans to double production capacity at its Leuna site in Germany, to 80 000 ton/year by mid2010 in a 40 million investment. Following the expansion in 2005 of its production capacities in North America (+20 000 ton/year), the doubling of capacity at the Shanghai plant in China, due to come on stream in the summer of 2008, and the 10% capacity increase at the Jarrie site in France, Arkema’s global hydrogen peroxide production capacity will reach 440 000 ton/year by mid-2010 when the Leuna expansion becomes operational.
Huntsman invests in MDI
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untsman Corp has started design and feasibility studies to increase its global capacity for the manufacture of methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) through investment in a new, world scale MDI plant at its site in Rozenburg, the Netherlands. A final investment decision is expected during 2008, with the new 400 000 metric tons capacity unit coming on-stream by mid-2011. The final plan may also incorporate the closure of older, less efficient capacity in Europe.
Hatch studies water recovery at Escondida mine
WATER & WASTE TREATMENT
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atch was recently retained by BHP Billiton Base Metals to execute a prefeasibility study at the Escondida copper mining facilities in northern Chile. The study will examine ways to improve water recovery from the tailings.
April 2008
capital improvement project to implement advanced nutrient removal processes and boost the plant’s wastewater treatment capacity to keep pace with Olathe’s growing population. The expansion is expected to triple the Cedar Creek plant’s existing capacity of three million gallons per day.
Engineer appointed for wastewater plant lack & Veatch has been selected by the city of Olathe, Kansas, USA, as the consulting engineer for the expansion of the Cedar Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant. Black & Veatch will provide engineering services for the initial study phase of the
NC-Lavalin has been awarded a US$597 million contract by Venezuela’s Instituto Nacional de Desarrollo Rural (INDER) to design and build an integrated irrigation system, supporting infrastructure and three small towns in the Tiznados district of the State of Guarico, about 300 km south of Caracas. The project is multi-faceted and includes the design and construction of a 12.8 km extension to an existing irrigation canal, as well as the design and construction of 14 km of secondary and 18 km of tertiary conduits or branches from the canal, associated infrastructure such as gates, farm intakes, all other water distribution systems required to serve 32 200 hectares of the Tiznados valley, and the installation of 10 000 hectares of in-farm irrigation with dripping and micro aspersion equipment.
Infrastructure support for wastewater system
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he Shaw Group’s Environmental & Infrastructure Group has been awarded a contract by DeKalb County, Georgia, USA, to provide the design, construction management and project management for a new wastewater interplant storage and conveyance system. Shaw’s five-year infrastructure services contract is valued at approximately US$20 million. Shaw will design the storage and conveyance system that will join the Snapfinger and Pole Bridge Creek wastewater treatment plants in southern DeKalb County. The system, which will include a tunnel that is five miles long and approximately 25 feet in diameter, will allow the transfer of sewage and/or treated effluent between each plant. The system will also include 50 million
Pump Industry Analyst
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