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May 2017
MODERN MINING
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CRUSHING, SCREENING
AND MILLING
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Another view of the HRC™ 3000, which has a total installed power of 11 400 kW and a total
installed weight of 900 tons.
Two big African orders for primary crushers secured
Big mining projects are currently thin on the ground in Africa
– which is why Metso South Africa can take satisfaction from
securing two major – and keenly contested – contracts in the
mining field recently.
One of the projects is Vedanta’s Gamsberg zinc project in the
Northern Cape where Metso has won the supply of the primary
jaw crusher, a C200™ model, a pebble crusher, an HP3 model,
and three stirred media detritors with two being the SMD-355
TM
model and one the SMD-90
TM
model.
The second major contract won is for the supply of a primary
gyratory crusher (PG54/75 Superior model) and a C150 primary
jaw crusher to Newmont’s Ahafo site in Ghana, where both a
plant expansion and an underground expansion known as the
Subika Underground mine have been approved.
provider, not just an equipment supplier and
can provide real benefits to our customers by
combining our considerable resources in South
Africa with the expertise of Metso engineers
around the world,” he observes.
The Metso group is headquartered in Finland
but operates globally and has a workforce of
around 11 000 people in more than 50 coun-
tries. It operates over a range of industries but
mining is a prime market, accounting for just
over half of all sales. Its products for mining
include mills, crushers, screens, bulk materi-
als handling systems and process equipment.
Metso is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki
and in 2016 had total sales of approximately
Euro 2,6 billion.