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Engineering firm extends life of copper mine

Pic of The foundations for PMC's crusher as part of its infrastructural upgrades.

The foundations for PMC's crusher as part of its infrastructural upgrades.

18th November 2021

By: Simone Liedtke

Creamer Media Social Media Editor & Senior Writer

     

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Consultancy Leoka Engineering is in the process of building the foundations for a crusher as part of infrastructural upgrades to Palabora Mining Company’s (PMC’s) plant to extend its life-of-mine (LoM).

The extension is critical not only for the ongoing success of the company itself, but also for the labour-sending communities in and around Phalaborwa.

The project is expected to be finalised and commissioned by March 2022, after which Leoka will start building a second crusher.

The crusher was made possible through detailed and fastidious three-dimensional modelling, as well as other pioneering innovations and interventions, the company said on November 18.

The underground crusher Leoka is installing at PMC is positioned 1 600 m underground and is the size of a six-storey building, and it can take material that is roughly 3 m x 1 m in size – about the size of a small car – and crush it to just 250 mm2.

The crusher can also process up to 2 000 t of material per hour, almost triple what PMC’s other 750-t-an-hour crushers can process.

Another way in which Leoka has set about improving PMC’s LoM involves developing a brand-new underground crusher, which the consultancy is expecting to be the largest in Africa.

Edited by Chanel de Bruyn
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor Online

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