เกจวัดแรงดัน1บาร์ has signed a DKK950 million contract with ShalkiyaZinc to supply mineral processing equipment, together with mill circuit pumps, for a greenfield zinc-lead concentrator at its zinc and lead mine in the Kyzylorda area of Kazakhstan.
The gear will remodel the plant into a world-class facility that efficiently separates minerals with a minimised environmental impact.
FLSmidth will supply two underground crushing stations with a supplies handling system to the process plant, a full package deal of comminution and separation gear, including 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 space. Full plant automation is also included, as nicely as installation and commissioning supervision services. The new concentrator will be supported from FLSmidth’s new service supercentre in Karaganda.
Equipment supply shall be accomplished during 2024, with commissioning set to start by the end of that 12 months.
“We are excited to receive this first order from ShalkiyaZinc, which highlights our full flowsheet expertise,” says Mikko Keto, Group CEO at FLSmidth. “The wide selection of apparatus included in the order will assist ShalkiyaZinc save on both CAPEX and OPEX; our new nextSTEP flotation technology will enhance the standard of the concentrates, the SAG mill will provide more flexibility, whereas the automation and digital solutions will further allow water and vitality financial savings alongside safer operations.”
“After testing and primary design work executed by FLSmidth, we are 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 venture director of Tau-Ken Samruk. “We believe in successful execution and sit up for receiving the ordered tools based on the schedule for set up and to proceed working with FLSmidth on commissioning companies and spare components.”
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