DRAFT Metso lands major deal with copper miner Codelco

Metso, Finland – Metso has won a major contract to support the conversion of the largest open-pit copper mine, the Finnish group announced 15 Aug.

The Chuquicamata mine, located 1,650km north of Santiago, Chile, is owned and operated by Chile's National Copper Corp. (Codelco).

Metso's scope in the contract includes the engineering, supply of equipment and materials, and site assistance for 12 underground crusher stations combined with a conveyor package.

The delivery contains 11 new units of Metso's largest C200 jaw crushers, 24 push feeders and 20 conveyors. Overall, the contract constitutes one of the most sizeable crusher orders ever for Metso's mining business.

The project is scheduled to continue until 2020 and the order was booked in Metso's second-quarter 2016 orders received.

To win the contract, Metso offered an integrated solution that carried through from engineering, crusher stations, and material handling to electrification, automation, and site assistance. Another selling point, it said, was an energy-saving idler conveyor technology.