At the Mining Indonesia show in early September, IM met with EPC contractor Duro Felguera, which operates in the country via PT Duro Felguera Indonesia, part of DF Mining and Handling division, established in June 2012 in Jakarta. Iñigo Garcia Pardo, Director of DF Indonesia, said the company has already completed two EPC contracts in the country in 2014.
The first was for PT Bara Ria Sukses in Jambi, Sumatra, where it delivered a turnkey river barge coal loading terminal consisting of two 800 t/h barge loading conveyors (BC01and BC01) as well as loading hoppers with variable speed belt feeders (four on BC01 and three on BC02); as well as complete civil works, including land filling and conveyor foundations and the river barge mooring jetty. The other contract was for PT Lamindo Inter Multikon in East Kalimantan in 2013 and covered the turnkey supply of a coal mine storage yard conveyor system including two 2,500 t/h conveyors, two transfer towers and one travelling tripper two way chute of 2,500 t/h.
The company is also keen to build on its recently announced partnership with Ausenco to expand its offering into the mineral processing part of project delivery. The DF-Ausenco Strategic Alliance is set to jointly pursue and deliver turnkey or EPC projects, in order to reinforce their position in the market.
In August, the companies announced a Memorandum of Understanding with the Canadian firm Royal Nickel Corporation (RNC) in order to deliver the Dumont Nickel Project in Quebec, Canada, on a turnkey basis. Under the terms of this MoU, DF-Ausenco, in a 50-50 consortium, will draw up the technical and commercial details of their bid. Once this phase is complete, and certain economic conditions have been met, project execution will start. The Dumont project is one of the few new nickel sites in the world and initial investment is estimated at $1,070 million. The open pit mine will be producing nickel for over 30 years and will be the fifth largest nickel sulphide mine in the world.
Ausenco has developed starting in 2010, on an EPCM basis, the Martabe 4.5 Mt/y gold/silver plant and its associated infrastructure, including the water polishing plant, air services, earthworks, drainage and the accommodation camp. This project ended in 2012. In the first quarter of 2015, the plant continued to perform well with G-Resources Group posting record production. The strong performance continued into the second quarter with the mine and process plant treating 993,000 t of ore at 2.81 g/t head grade.