New stage at the Gamsberg zinc project

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The completion of major construction activities and commissioning of the crushing, handling and storage system for ore in the Gamsberg zinc mine project in the Northern Cape are considered an important milestone. Completed for the Black Mountain Complex – owned by Vedanta Resources Group – by ELB Engineering Services (ELB) and its trading partners in July, the milestone supports the gradual end of construction and commissioning of the four million tons. "Considering that blasting for the foundation of the crushing plant was undertaken on July 20, 2017, this was a major achievement for the project team," said Dr. . Stephen Meijers the ELB CE, the South African know-how solutions provider internationally recognized for mining, energy, port, construction and construction. industry. The success of Vedanta goes through the innovation generated by ELB, the provision of equipment and technologies by its world-class partners, the expertise developed in-house and the integration of services and products ELB group.

In the context of a positive zinc price, Vedanta Zinc International (VZI), a subsidiary of the mining company Vedanta Resources, started the commissioning activities of the Greenfield mining project, where early production has was launched

. succeed in positively accounting for the zinc assets that Anglo left eight years ago.

Mining Weekly Online may report that the Vedanta Board of Directors has approved the go ahead for a feasibility study Complex of the first-stage smelter-refinery of a capacity of 700 Millions of dollars and a capacity of 250,000 t / y, the second and third phases of which correspond to the Gamsberg mine's own plans for gradual expansion. The scope of the feasibility study reviews previous work on the consolidation of VZI's Black Mountain mine and Skorpion Zinc in neighboring Namibia. On the cards is the Scorpion operation conversion of 150,000 t / y to co-treat the sulfide and Gamsberg oxide concentrate.

The company is also studying downstream industries that may include zinc-related galvanizing activity and a fallout of sulfuric acid

Energy supply, transportation and infrastructure infrastructure. Water supply will be needed to support all these infrastructure, solar energy being intended to play a role in an integrated power solution.