STRABAG awarded deal for mine conversion at Chuquicamata

STRABAG said that its subsidiary ZÜBLIN has won 2 contracts from Codelco for the improvement of the Chuquicamata Underground Mine “Mina Norte” successful Chile.

The contracts person a combined worth of astir €800m ($944m). They are portion of ongoing efforts to person Chuquicamata from an open-pit cognition into an underground mine.

Scheduled for completion successful 2031, the underground mining task represents 1 of STRABAG’s largest undertakings successful Chilean mining to date.

The scope of enactment includes constructing much than 54km of tunnels and related infrastructure to enactment extended operations astatine the site. Around 1,200 workers volition enactment during the operation period.

According to STRABAG, this caller signifier aims to prolong accumulation and operational continuity astatine Chuquicamata for respective decades.

STRABAG has operated continuously successful Chile for astir 4 decades, with task acquisition that covers large mines specified arsenic El Teniente and Candelaria, successful summation to Chuquicamata.

Over this period, the company’s activities person progressive gathering much than 380km of tunnels and transporting ample volumes of excavation material, adding up to implicit €6bn successful completed projects passim Chile’s main mining regions.

STRABAG enforcement committee subordinate Siegfried Wanker said: “ZÜBLIN has been successfully progressive successful Chile for astir 4 decades, delivering large mining and tunnelling projects arsenic good arsenic vigor infrastructure. Mina Norte volition further fortify our relation arsenic a trusted spouse successful large-scale mining and heighten our beingness successful markets extracurricular Europe.”

ZÜBLIN has antecedently delivered analyzable tunnelling projects nether contracts similar Chuquicamata Subterránea betwixt 2016 and 2024, wherever passageway advances reached up to 1,900m per month.

Recently, STRABAG Sp. z o.o., the Polish subsidiary of STRABAG, obtained 2 contracts totalling astir €147m for roadworthy modernisation works successful Poland.

The institution volition transportation retired large renovation of the DK25 nationalist road, connecting the A2 motorway with the S11 expressway. These projects further found STRABAG’s relation successful Poland’s mobility infrastructure sector.

"STRABAG awarded woody for excavation conversion astatine Chuquicamata" was primitively created and published by World Construction Network, a GlobalData owned brand.

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