WestStar Industrial Ltd, an Australian industrial services company providing engineering, construction and mining services to the resources, energy and infrastructure sectors; advises that its engineering contractor business Alltype Engineering has been awarded multiple contracts to a totalvalue of A$7 million across multiple industries, including mining.

As part of this, Alltype was awarded a new contract for process piping fabrication works by Primero Group on Fortescue Metals Group’s wet high intensity magnetic separation (WHIMS) project at Christmas Creek.

Primero has previously said that the vertical WHIMS plant, part of FMG’s OPF2, will improve product grade and mass recovery of product from the Desands unit operation at Fortescue’s existing processing facilities at Christmas Creek, using Vertical Wet High Intensity Magnet technology. The flowsheet is based on a simple and robust configuration, where wet screen undersize at a nominal -1 mm is treated in open circuit through a Low Intensity Magnetic (LIMS) stage, followed by a Vertical Wet High Intensity Magnetic Separation (V-WHIMS) stage to produce a concentrate stream and a tailings stream, which can be integrated with the existing process and auxiliary equipment. The VWHIMS project comprises to redirection of the wet screen undersize stream from the existing scrubbing circuit to feed the brownfield magnetic separation plant.

Alltype Engineering Managing Director Kelvin Andrijich noted: “Recent supply chain disruption to overseas and interstate fabrication options has increased the market opportunity of the business, resulting in significantly increased levels of tendering for committed major project works, new clients domestically and internationally, with notable consumption of industry capacity. Alltype has been delivering accelerated fabricated steel, plate and piping products and equipment to enable major resource and infrastructure projects to maintain progress and momentum on site. Once this alternative supply chain process was proven successful, it has resulted in multiple repeat orders and future supply opportunities. Our site teams continue to assist with critical infrastructure works on both planned and reactive basis to our client’s needs.”