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| FLSmidth receives order in Mexico FLSmidth, a Denmark-based provider of plants, equipment, systems and services for the cement and minerals industries, said its Minerals segment has been awarded a contract to supply complete equipment systems and technical expertise to Baja Mining Corp. (Baja) and its majority owned Mexican subsidiary, Minera y Metalurgica del Boleo (MMB), for their Boleo copper mine in Mexico. The contract is worth approximately USD 36m (DKK 185m). FLSmidth is to supply key process technology packages for four project sections of the Boleo plant system covering ore milling and grinding, counter current decantation for value recovery, impurities removal, and limestone grinding for neutralization/tails disposal to process copper, cobalt and zinc. The Boleo mine was originally discovered in the late 1800's by Mexican ranchers and has historically been successful in producing copper ore. The founders of Baja and MMB have been involved with Boleo since 1992 and completed a Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) on Boleo in 2007. The DFS resulted in the decision to invest in modern mining and processing techniques as a polymetallic project to extract the cobalt, zinc and potentially manganese along with the copper. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Construction News :: home page |