The worth of the Metso tools packages beneath the framework settlement is €200 million. The worth of the primary orders, consisting of crushing and grinding tools, is near €100 million in complete, and they’re booked within the Minerals phase’s 2024 third-quarter order consumption.
Metso’s scope of supply for the crushing and grinding circuits consists of Superior 6089 MKIII Gyratory Crushers and Nordberg MP1250 Cone crushers in addition to Premier ball mills with 51MW put in energy, geared up with gearless mill drive know-how and Metso’s failsafe Polymer Hydrostatic Shoe Bearing programs, considerably growing reliability and decreasing upkeep prices. The mills will likely be geared up with Metso’s metallic mill linings.
Orders for the TankCell mechanical flotation cells and high-intensity Concorde Cell models, HRT thickeners, Vertimill and HIGmill regrind mills, mill reline tools, focus filters and automation tools included within the body settlement are anticipated to be signed and booked within the Minerals phase’s order consumption later in 2024 and 2025.
“Reko Diq will considerably broaden Barrick’s strategically vital copper and gold portfolios and profit all its Pakistani stakeholders for generations to come back. We’re happy to accomplice with Metso on this undertaking the place sustainable focus processing is likely one of the key drivers for plant design and operation,” Barrick CEO Mark Bristow mentioned in a information launch.
It’s anticipated that Reko Diq could have a mine life of roughly 40 years as a truck-and-shovel open pit operation, with development anticipated in two phases and offering a mixed processing capability of circa 90 million tons every year. The primary manufacturing is focused for 2028.