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Fluor helps GAC’s bauxite mine project achieve major construction milestone

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The Guinea Alumina Corporation (GAC) bauxite mine project in the Boké region of Guinea (Africa) recently achieved a major construction milestone when the project team safely set the car dumper facility’s 450 t rotating assembly into its final location.

Fluor helps GAC’s bauxite mine project achieve major construction milestone

Fluor is providing engineering and programme management services on the project, which encompasses a 12 million tpy bauxite mine, a dedicated export terminal in Port Kamsar and rail and other infrastructure upgrades.

The car dumper facility is critical to the mine’s logistics and operations. Bauxite is transported from the mine to the Port Kamsar site by rail, where it is then shipped to customers. At the port, the car dumper facility unloads bauxite from the rail wagons, with the rotating assembly playing a critical part.

It took three days, multiple self-propelled modular transporters and two 750 t cranes to complete the milestone. The final lift required special preparations in order to hoist the 450 t assembly over the car dumper facility’s walls and into its final location. A 200 person team, representing 14 different countries and contractors, completed the lift.

“This milestone was achieved due to the collective efforts between the GAC and Fluor project teams,” said Troy Gilson, Fluor’s Project Director. “It demonstrates the importance of having a strong relationship built around teamwork and trust. This critical milestone was executed safely after six months of detailed planning with a team focused and committed to working safer together.”

The project has worked more than 8 million consecutive hours without a lost-time incident.

The project is expected to complete in 2019.

Read the article online at: https://www.globalminingreview.com/mining/03042019/fluor-helps-gacs-bauxite-mine-project-achieve-major-construction-milestone/

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