Copper miner Kamoa Copper – a subsidiary of Ivanhoe Mines – has chosen mining equipment firm Metso Outotec to produce a high-capacity direct blister furnace for the growth of the Kamoa-Kakula copper mining advanced within the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The worth of such a a supply is often between €30-million and €40-million. The order has been booked in Metso’s third-quarter orders acquired.
“Nonferrous metals play a key function within the inexperienced transition and a significant enhance in international copper manufacturing is required to assist this transition. We’re happy to assist Kamoa Copper of their formidable growth venture, by which high-capacity and dependable, sustainable processes play a significant function. Our collaboration has been . . . all through the preliminary levels of the method, together with the preliminary research work, primary engineering in addition to pilot testing,” says Metso Outotec smelting VP Jyrki Makkonen.
Metso Outotec’s scope of supply consists of key gear and automation for the direct blister furnace, which has been designed for the manufacturing of blister copper in a single flash furnace with out the necessity for separate changing levels.
The furnace, with throughput of 500 0000 t/y of copper, could have the biggest licensed flash smelting capability globally, says Metso Outotec.
The scope additionally consists of clever security and monitoring automation methods for the furnace.
Metso Outotec has delivered greater than 60 flash furnaces globally for the reason that Fifties. That is probably the most used expertise in pyrometallurgical copper manufacturing, in accordance with the corporate. The Metso Outotec flash smelting course of is the cleanest smelting technique obtainable and a part of the corporate’s Planet Constructive providing.
