TIC was the general contractor for the installation of 10.5 miles of underground conveyor, 4.5 miles of above ground conveyor, and underground crusher installation. This was the world’s longest single-flight conveyance system at the time of installation.
Technical Details
- Three 12,000 hp 34’ x 15’ Dominion SAG Mills
- Six 5,500 hp 18½‘ x 28’ Marcy Ball Mills
- One 2,000 hp 14’ x 22’ Rexnord Ball Mill and one 1,000 hp 8’ x 14’ Allis Chalmers Ball Mill
- 6,000 cy of concrete for an in-pit semi-portable 64” x 109” Allis Chalmers gyratory crusher
- Seven 1,750 hp and 1,300 hp Byron Jackson vertical turbine pumps installed in two pumphouses.
- Cooling water and water filtration plant consisting of 3 circulation pumps, a 3 cell 2,500 gpm Baltimore air cooling tower and Eimco filter system
- 3.2 miles of 72” overland conveyor, most of which was installed in a former railroad tunnel.
- 95,000 lf of tailings discharge pipelines
- Tanks, agitators, dryers, Renneburg rotary
