MDM Engineering has been awarded the EPCM implementation for the replacement of Foskor’s D-Bank flotation plant at Phalaborwa, in the Limpopo province, South Africa. Founded in 1951, Foskor’s Mining Division in Phalaborwa mines phosphate rock, from which Foskor’s Acid Division in Richards Bay produces phosphoric acid and phosphate-based granular fertilisers for local and international markets.

The open-pit mine in Phalaborwa has the capacity to produce 3 Mt/yof phosphate rock concentrate from 35 Mt/y of ore mined. Once crushed, milled, concentrated and dried, most of the phosphate rock concentrate is railed to Foskor’s processing plant in Richards Bay, 800 km away on the KwaZulu-Natal coast.