South Africa:  Kumba Iron Ore Mine

Hatch delivers EPCM services to Kumba Iron Ore’s Kolomela project

The Kolomela mine (Sishen South) plant and stockyard project included pouring 30,000 m3 of concrete, 1,450 tons of plate work, 1,300 tons of structural steel, 1,100 tons of conveyors, 335 mechanical equipment items, 205 kilometres of electric and instrument cables, and 25 kilometres of piping

Kumba Iron Ore’s Kolomela Mine (formerly named Sishen South) is within budget to produce 9 million tonnes per annum of high-grade iron ore by 2013. The ore will be processed in a crushing and sizing plant and transferred to stockpiles and a rail-truck loading station.

Hatch supplied all engineering, procurement and construction management services for the plant and stockyard area, which extends from the primary crusher feed-point, the primary, secondary and tertiary crushing of material with scalping, and product screening through to stacking and reclaiming in the stockyard, the load-out station and the rail chase. Hatch’s portion of the project will commence commissioning in June 2011.

Kumba is managing the overall Kolomela Mine project with first ore scheduled to be delivered to port in 2012.