ABB has won a $50 million order from Minera Chinalco Peru to supply electrification and automation systems for the new Toromocho copper mine and concentrator plant. This is ABB’s second order from the mine as last year it won a separate order to supply three gearless mill-drive systems. They will be the world’s largest and highest-altitude gearless mill-drive systems.

The processing plant at Toromocho will be located at an altitude of 4,500 m in central Peru, in the Morococha mining district 140 km east of Lima, the country’s capital. The concentrator will produce approximately 1 Mt/y of copper concentrate, with byproduct silver and molybdenum trioxide.

“The quality and reliability of ABB’s technologies will help to maximise productivity at this new mine,” said Veli-Matti Reinikkala, head of ABB’s Process Automation division. “The order is testimony to the strength of our power and automation portfolio and our global expertise in the mining industry.”

ABB will engineer and supply the 23 kV main switchgear, unit substations and distribution transformers, prefabricated electrical rooms containing medium- and low-voltage switchgear, variable-speed drives and motor control centers, as well as a plant-wide process automation system using ABB’s Extended Automation System 800xA.