Weir Minerals Scoops Copper-Concentrate Contract

Weir Minerals Scoops Copper-Concentrate Contract

£3.7M CONTRACT WITH OUTOTEC

Weir Minerals has secured a £3.7 million order to supply pumps, valves, cyclone clusters and slurry hoses for one of Russia’s biggest copper concentrate production plants.

The company was selected by Outotec, a Finnish contractor which is delivering the new copper concentrator facility in Cheylabinsk for ZAO Miheevsky – a subsidiary of the Russian Copper Company (RCC).

Scheduled to begin production in early 2014, the scheme will process 18 million tons of copper ore per year from an open-pit ore mine. The concentrate produced at the plant will go on to be smelted and refined into pure copper.

Weir Minerals is supplying 60 pumps, 95 valves and six cyclone clusters – large units used to separate particles from slurry.

The contract is the biggest Weir Minerals has secured with a Finnish client this year.