FLSmidth has signed a DKK950 million contract with ShalkiyaZinc to provide mineral processing tools, including mill circuit pumps, for a greenfield zinc-lead concentrator at its zinc and lead mine within the Kyzylorda region of Kazakhstan.
The equipment will transform the plant into a world-class facility that efficiently separates minerals with a minimised environmental influence.
FLSmidth will provide two underground crushing stations with a supplies dealing with system to the method plant, a full bundle of comminution and separation equipment, together with SAG and ball mills, mill circuit pumps and cyclones, the zinc-lead focus flotation and regrinding circuit, together with nextSTEP, VXP vertical mills, focus thickeners, and Pneumapress filters, reagents preparation and dosing area. Full plant automation is also included, as nicely as installation and commissioning supervision providers. The new concentrator shall be supported from FLSmidth’s new service supercentre in Karaganda.
Cover-up shall be completed throughout 2024, with commissioning set to start out by the top of that 12 months.
“We are excited to obtain this primary order from ShalkiyaZinc, which highlights our full flowsheet experience,” says Mikko Keto, Group CEO at FLSmidth. “The big selection of kit included in the order will assist ShalkiyaZinc save on both CAPEX and OPEX; our new nextSTEP flotation technology will improve the quality of the concentrates, the SAG mill will provide more flexibility, whereas the automation and digital options will additional enable water and energy financial savings alongside safer operations.”
“After testing and basic design work executed by FLSmidth, we’re happy to enter this new part of collaboration with the procurement of critical applied sciences to improve the productiveness and sustainability of our plant,” says Assel Rakhimova, chief challenge director of Tau-Ken Samruk. “We believe in successful execution and look forward to receiving the ordered tools in accordance with the schedule for set up and to proceed working with FLSmidth on commissioning companies and spare elements.”
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