PERTH (miningweekly.com) – ASX-listed Cimic has announced a number of contract awards across the resources sector.
Subsidiary UGL has been awarded more than A$200-million worth of construction and maintenance contracts, including civil, structural, mechanical, piping, electrical, communications and instrumentation work at mining major Rio Tinto’s Mesa J rescreening plant, in Western Australia.
The project would employ 160 staff and will continue until September next year.
UGL has also won a contract extension for scheduled major shutdown services at Rio’s alumina refinery.
Furthermore, UGL will be responsible for the installation of a run-of-mine crusher and materials handling circuit at the Roy Hill mine site, with the project expected to employ 100 staff.
UGL has also been appointed to major BHP’s engineering services panel to provide services for the shutdown and sustaining capital projects across the company’s Western Australian iron-ore mines and port operations, as well as its rail facilities in the Pilbara.
Cimic subsidiary CPB Contractors have been awarded two contracts worth A$128-million, to deliver concrete and detailed earthworks for a wet processing plant at iron-ore miner Fortescue’s Iron Bridge magnetite project, and to provide essential work at Paradise Dam, in Queensland.