Sishen South Project

Kumba Iron Ore (Anglo American) | South Africa | 2008–2011

18 million

man-hours with 0 LTIs

Below budget

with no contingency used

Completed

project ahead of schedule

0.7 Mtpa

over design capacity in first year of production

Challenges

  • Establish a nearby greenfield processing-and-material-handling facility to produce an initial 9 Mtpa of iron ore from the Kolomela mine.
  • Develop the Kolomela mine as a direct-shipping operation to meet the increased demand for high-grade iron ore.

Solutions

  • Provided full engineering, procurement, project and construction management for the plant, stockyard, and load-out facility.
  • Expanded the purpose of the Kolomela mine to include a direct-shipping operation.
  • Designed and managed the rail link from the mine to the main Sishen–Saldanha line as a separate project.
  • Assumed construction management of the housing development for operations staff in 2011 and completed 718 houses.

Highlights

  • Winner, Kumba Iron Ore’s Gold “Laurel” Safety Award (2011)
  • Project completed within budget and ahead of schedule

Project numbers

R6.5 billion(Hatch’s role: R2.3 billion)
30,000m3of concrete poured
1,450 tonnesof plate work
1,300 tonnesof structural steel
1,100 tonnesof conveyors
335mechanical equipment items
205 kmof electric and instrument cables
26 kmof piping
840jobs created

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