As always I would like to promote some positive news that you may not have heard of as yet.
Mining and Construction related Activity
Rio Tinto is to sell Gladstone Boyne smelter and associated Gladstone Power Station in a massive realignment of its light metals business. The company will also sell its Gove bauxite and alumina operations in the Northern Territory, its interests in the Tomago smelter in New South Wales and the Bell Bay smelter in Tasmania as well as New Zealand Aluminium Smelters.
Yancoal has purchased Wesfarmers Premier coal mine for $A296.8M and purchases like this will continue as it is willing to spend billions to purchase more Australian coal mines.
BHP Olympic dam takes another step forward in this huge project. Over 6 years, a teeming fleet of trucks and shovels will need to scour a layer of dirt 350m deep from a pit around 4km long and 3.5kms wide. Only in year 7, and after the expenditure of around $15B, will BHP start open cut mining, lifting copper production from today’s level of around 180,000tpa in stages to 750,000tpa. In addition to the massive pit, BHP will spend billions on a large desalination plant at Port Bonython, an extended airport and rail and power infrastructure.The company will also pour funds into processing plant additions with expenditure earmarked for a new concentrator and hydrometallurgical plant. It is believed the total expansion cost at US$27.4B. The BHP board is expected to make a final decision on whether the project will go ahead in mid-2012..
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Mining and Construction related Activity Cont
BHP Billiton Iron Ore will move away from its traditional rapid growth projects and adopt a program-of-work approach, designing “cookie cutter” mines and infrastructure to maximise its growth potential as part of a master plan to grow its iron ore business to 450Mtpa
Whitehaven Coal have secured $A350M of credit for working capital to develop its Narrabri longwall and Vickery open cut projects.
BHP Billiton amoungts others may be be an interested buyer for Kagara Ltd’s Lounge Lizard nickel mine in WA, which is expected to be sold by the end of the year
China and Indonesia have signed a $6B deal to build a nickel-smelting plant on Sulawesi island which will start production early next year.
Adani has been engaged with many mobile equipment OEM to apprently begin ordering machines before Christmas as it starts developing its recently purchased Carmichael mining lease.
Gloucestor Coal aims to introduce longwall mining to the Donaldson Coal operations.
Fortescue Metals Group is open to the possibility of a joint venture with Aquila Resources for the proposed Anketell Point port development.
ERA has raised $380M to extend its Ranger uranium mine.The proceeds will be used to fund construction of a brine concentrator and other water management initiatives, construction of the Ranger 3 Deeps exploration decline and associated drilling, completion of evaluation studies into the development of the Ranger 3 Deeps mine and an expanded exploration program.
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Energy
Chevron has committed to developing the $A29B Wheatstone LNG project at Ashburton North
Apache Corporation has committed to the $438M development of the Balnaves oil field in WA-49-L offshore WA that will produce 30,000 barrels of oil per day at its peak.
Australia’s Darwin LNG will undergo a scheduled maintenance at its 3.6Mtpa complex, which is expected to begin in the last week of April 2012. There will be a “dual-shutdown” at both the offshore facility at the Bayu-Undan gas field in the Timor Sea and the onshore Darwin plant located at Point Wickham.
Mining Equipment and Services News
KBR will provide design engineering, construction support and certification services for Townsville Port’s $104M Inner Harbour Expansion project.
Clough has been awarded a $600M infrastructure construction contract for Santos’ GLNG project in the Surat Basin. It will build more than 400km of gas and water transmission pipelines, two compression facilities, as well as an 800 person camp.
WorleyParsons has won the A$235M construction management services contract for Chevron’s Wheatstone project.
The Thiess Sedgman JV has been awarded an $85M contract to DCP a coal handling and preparation plant at the Codrilla mine.
ABB will design a new ore hoisting system for Xstrata’s Ernest Henry copper mine.The $11M dollar order will it design, supply and commission all the electrical and mechanical equipment for a vertical tower mounted ore hoist system
Abigroup and Golding Contractors JV has been awarded a $290M contract to build part of the Wiggins Island coal export terminal.
Delta SBD has been awarded a drivage development contract at Whitehaven Coal’s Narrabri mine.
Brookfield Multiplex Engineering + Infrastructure (E+I) has been announced as preferred contractor for the DPC of the $1.2B process plant and mine material handling facilities at the Roy Hill mine site.
John Holland has been selected as the preferred tenderer for the construction of the $400M proposed Connors River Dam to Moranbah Pipeline.The project involves the construction of 136km of buried pipeline that will carry around 45,000 megalitres of water per annum from the proposed dam to the Bowen Basin.
Thiess will establish the Solomon Hub iron ore mine in WA for long-term operations under a contract with Fortescue Metals worth $100M. The 18-month contract is for initial pioneering and mine establishment works including haul roads, stockpile pads and the mining of early ore and waste.
GE Energy has partnered with First Solar Incorporated and WA’s Verve Energy to build a solar farm that is 10 times larger than any solar power station currently operating in Australia. The approved Greenough River project is a 10MW photovoltaic (PV) power plant that will be built on 80 hectares of land, 50km SE of Geraldton.
Decmil Group has won $70M contract to design, supply and install the 502 room fly camp for the development of the Wheatstone LNG project.
Aluminum Boats Australia will build three passenger ferries valued at $21M for Gladstone LNG which would be used to transport workers between the port city and Curtis Island.
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