Copper plant contract for Outotec

Panorama

Publishing Date: 06 Oct 2009 4:03pm GMT
Author: Mining Magazine

Processing

Outotec has won a contract worth approximately €16 million with Pueblo Viejo Dominicana Corp, owned jointly by Barrick Gold and Goldcorp Inc. The contract covers the supply of a copper recovery plant which utilises Outotec’s Sulphide Precipitation Process to Pueblo Viejo's gold mine in the Dominican Republic.

The delivery includes engineering, proprietary and process equipment, instrumentation and automation, as well as supervisory services and spare parts. The plant will be supplied as prefabricated skid-mounted units, to minimise the amount of site work and ensure quick implementation. The units will be pre-tested at Outotec’s workshops before the plant is installed and commissioned by the end of 2011.

Tapani Järvinen, CEO of Outotec commented: “This contract is a significant breakthrough in combining Outotec's hydrometallurgical expertise and Paques' biotechnology in copper production. Our innovative OKTOP reactors developed in recent years have already been sold to the Cobre Las Cruces and Talvivaara projects. Paques THIOTEQ is complementing our process and enabling us to offer larger process solutions to our customers.”