FLSmidth has signed a DKK950 million contract with ShalkiyaZinc to provide mineral processing gear, together with mill circuit pumps, for a greenfield zinc-lead concentrator at its zinc and lead mine within the Kyzylorda area of Kazakhstan.
The gear will transform the plant into a world-class facility that efficiently separates minerals with a minimised environmental impression.
FLSmidth will provide two underground crushing stations with a supplies handling system to the process plant, a full package of comminution and separation gear, including SAG and ball mills, mill circuit pumps and cyclones, the zinc-lead focus flotation and regrinding circuit, together with nextSTEP, VXP vertical mills, concentrate thickeners, and Pneumapress filters, reagents preparation and dosing space. Full plant automation can also be included, in addition to set up and commissioning supervision companies. The new concentrator might be supported from FLSmidth’s new service supercentre in Karaganda.
Equipment delivery shall be completed throughout 2024, with commissioning set to begin by the end of that year.
“ เพรสเชอร์เกจคือ are excited to obtain this primary order from ShalkiyaZinc, which highlights our full flowsheet experience,” says Mikko Keto, Group CEO at FLSmidth. “The wide range of equipment included within the order will assist ShalkiyaZinc save on each CAPEX and OPEX; our new nextSTEP flotation know-how will enhance the quality of the concentrates, the SAG mill will provide more flexibility, while the automation and digital options will additional enable water and vitality financial savings alongside safer operations.”
“After testing and fundamental design work executed by FLSmidth, we’re happy to enter this new part of collaboration with the procurement of important applied sciences to improve the productiveness and sustainability of our plant,” says Assel Rakhimova, chief project director of Tau-Ken Samruk. “We consider in profitable execution and look ahead to receiving the ordered tools according to the schedule for installation and to proceed working with FLSmidth on commissioning services and spare parts.”
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