Madagascar Minerals Illmenite Mine

 
 
Location:Faut Dauphin, Madagascar
Owner:QIT (Rio Tinto)
Lead Contractor:Mandene JV (Fluor / Hatch)
Value:US$ 86,000,000
Peak Manpower:1,400
Duration/Finish:30 months/June 2009
Description:Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Structural Steel and Piping scope for  ‘greenfields’ Titanium Dioxide Mine
Madagascar Minerals Illmenite Mine
Scope of Work:

S.M.E.I.P                              

(Steel work erection, mechanical, electrical,  instrumentation and piping) of this Greenfields Site including infrastructure, floating wet mining plant and concentrator, dry mineral separation plant and materials handling/export

Supply, detailing, installation and testing of 6,500T steel including pontoons, 1,000T plate-work, 802 pieces of mechanical equipment, 200km cabling, 1,200 instruments, 185 drives, 2,000 lights, 22km of process piping (steel and HDPE) 31,000m2 cladding. Specialist construction activities include: tank field assembly, grouting, scaffolding, NDT, rubber lining, polyurethane lining, conveyor belt and bucket elevator jointing, painting. Kentz has deployed its own capital equipment.