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October 2016
MODERN MINING
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MINING News
AIM-listed Hummingbird Resources has
announced that following the recent
appointment of contractor IMAGRI-SARL,
civil works have now commenced at the
company’s Yanfolila gold project in Mali.
According to Hummingbird, IMAGRI
is an established specialist in the con-
struction of world class mines in Mali. It
was instrumental in the construction and
expansion of Randgold Resources’flagship
Loulo underground mine power plant and
the associated Gounkoto open-pit mine.
IMAGRI’s experience also includes
work at Robex Resources’ Nampala gold
mine (as general contractor), Toguna
Agro-Industries’ phosphate mine, the
Elephant Vert’s fertiliser plant, as well as
a portion of ASX-listed Resolute Mining’s
Syama mine.
In July this year Hummingbird awarded
the Engineering, Procurement and Con
struction Management (EPCM) contract
for Yanfolila to SENET (Pty) Ltd, a leading
South African project management and
engineering company with extensive gold
The start of civil works at the Yanfolila site (photo: Hummingbird).
EPCM contract for antimony roaster in Oman awarded
Strategic Precious Metals Processing
(SPMP) has contracted WorleyParsons
Oman Engineering, with support from
WorleyParsons RSA, to execute the engi-
neering, procurement and construction
management (EPCM) for the world’s first
major antimony roaster outside of China
in decades, designed to modern environ-
mental standards.
The Oman Antimony Roaster (OAR) will
be constructed in Sohar, located within the
Free Port Zone of the Sultanate of Oman.
The plant location is ideal for the trading
facilities available to SPMP.
The OAR project will be a commer-
cial plant where the feed to the plant
will originate from across the globe. The
plant involves a roasting, gas treatment
and smelting process. The main product
streams of the processing plant include
high grade antimony ingots, powdered
antimony trioxide, gypsum and gold
doré.
WorleyParsons RSA will execute the
engineering and procurement scope
from South Africa in conjunction with
WorleyParsons in Australia (Adelaide
and Perth). The WorleyParsons Oman
Engineering team, which played a key
role in pursuing this strategic customer
and which provided support and advice
to the customer throughout the discus-
sions leading to the award, will be fulfilling
the construction management scope with
strong support from both WorleyParsons
RSA and Australia.
Civils contractor kicks off at Yanfolila
plant experience throughout Africa.
“We are now laying the ground work
for our first gold mine in Mali with civil
works having started,” comments Dan
Betts, CEO of Hummingbird Resources.
“ This is an important milestone for
Hummingbird Resources as full scale mine
construction has now commenced, and
we are on schedule for our first gold pour
by the end of 2017 targeting 132 000 oz
in the first year.”
Hummingbird is developingYanfolila as
a low cost, multi-pit mining operation with
ore treatment via a simple gravity and CIL
processing route. The processing plant will
have a capacity of 1,24 Mt/a.