Development & Operations
North America
Mount Milligan – Copper/Gold (British Columbia) – First major greenfield mine built in British Columbia in last 20 years. Open pit mine, concentrator, tailings storage facility, infrastructure for 60,000 tpd operation. $US 1.6B CAPEX, peak workforce during construction of 1200. 5M manhours without LTA.
Development, Start-up, Operations Development, Optimization
Endako – Molybdenum (British Columbia) – Brownfield with new concentrator, facilities. $550M CAPEX, peak workforce during construction of 450.
Development, Start-up, Optimization
Ft Knox – Gold (Alaska) – Greenfield open pit mine, concentrator, tailings storage. $500M CAPEX
Development, Start-up
Henderson – Molybdenum (Colorado) – Brownfield underground mine upgrades involving time-sensitive shutdown schedule. Included underground crushing, new block cave, installation of longest single flight curved conveyor in operation. $200M CAPEX.
Construction, Start-up
South America
San Cristobal – Zinc/Lead/Silver (Bolivia) – Greenfield 40,000 tpd open pit mine, concentrator, infrastructure project. Largest single industrial development ever in Bolivia. $1B CAPEX; peak workforce during construcdtion of 5,000; 12M manhours without LTA. Largest single non-government development ever in Bolivia.
Development, Start-up, Operations
Cerro Verde – Copper (Peru) – Brownfield expansion and modernization project for copper heap leach operation. $300M CAPEX.
Development, Start-up
El Abra – Copper (Chile) – Greenfield open pit copper mine, leach plant. Largest on-off leach pad system. $1.3B CAPEX
Development, Start-up
Activity Locations
Australiasia
Freeport Indonesia – Copper/Gold (Indonesia) – Included Ertsberg open pit, GBT underground block cave, IOZ underground, Grasberg open pit development, multiple process facilities expansion, infrastructure, townsites, hospital, port expansion. Multiple expansions over 15 years. +$2B CAPEX.
Development, Start-ups, Operations, Optimizations
Asia
Kubaka – Gold (Russia) Russian Far East – Greenfield gold mine in remote location supported by seasonal ice road. Open pit mine, concentrator, infrastructure. $275M CAPEX.
Development, Start-up, Operations
Notes:
Development activities include: feasibility, engineering, procurement, permitting, construction, pre commissioning through to start-up
Start-up activities include first product through startup into ramp-up to commerical production
Operations activities includes developing operating team, process and procedures development, management of operations, optimizations
Capex - in current USD