GR Engineering Services Limited has been awarded a design and construct contract with Develop Global Limited for the Woodlawn Restart project, in New South Wales, Australia.

Woodlawn is primarily a copper-zinc mine located in the Lachlan Ford belt in NSW, 250 km southwest of Sydney and 40 km south of Goulburn.

The contract value is A$25.7 million ($17.5 million) and the scope of work includes the refurbishment flowsheet and operability improvements of the existing process plant and associated infrastructure. The project is expected to be completed in the second half of thr 2025 financial year.

Tony Patrizi, Managing Director, said: “We are pleased to have been engaged by Develop to play an important role on the Woodlawn Restart project. We
look forward to continuing to work collaboratively with Develop to deliver a safe and successful outcome for this project and to assist them with their future growth plans.”

Woodlawn has a resource of 11.3 Mt at 1.8% Cu, 5.8% Zn, 2.1% Pb, 46 g/t Ag and 0.5 g/t Au, for contained metal of 190,000 t of copper and 650,000 t of zinc.

The mine plan estimates that Woodlawn will produce an average of 12,000 t/y of copper and 36,000 t/y of zinc metal in payable streams over an estimated 10-year mine life.