BHP completes Gemco expansion, celebrates 50 years
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Mining giant BHP Billiton has completed the second stage of its Groote Eylandt expansion project, coinciding with the firm celebrating 50 years of mining from the manganese operation, in the Northern Territory.
The $279-million second stage expansion of the Gemco project was expected to increase its beneficiated product capacity from 4.2-million tonnes a year to 4.8-million tonnes a year through the introduction of a dense media circuit bypass facility.
The expansion also addressed infrastructure constraints by increasing road and port capacity to 5.9-million tonnes a year, creating 1.1-million tonnes of latent capacity for future expansion.
“In the past five years, we have invested around $462-million in two significant expansions at Gemco and during this time we have grown our workforce, creating new jobs and business opportunities for local companies in Darwin and Groote Eylandt,” said BHP’s Australian manganese president, Bryan Quinn.
BHP’s Australian manganese business is the largest seaborne producer of manganese ore in the world, with Gemco exporting more than 80-million tonnes of manganese ore in the past 50 years.
“Today we are delighted to celebrate 50 years of mining and working together with the Traditional Owners of Groote Eylandt. Over the past 50 years our company has taken great pride in ensuring we rehabilitate the land as we mine, and treat the overall Eylandt with the respect it deserves as such an important place in this beautiful region,” said Quinn.
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