Partnerships key as South Africa tackles Gamsberg project

At global diversified miner Vedanta Resources’ Gamsberg mine, in the Northern Cape, motor and controls manufacturer Zest WEG Group is working closely with lead contractor ELB Engineering Services as a preferred supplier to standardise its range of transformers and motors across a number of on-site applications. The Gamsberg project is currently South Africa’s largest greenfield mining project and will exploit one of the world’s largest zinc deposits. It is being developed at a capital cost of $400-million and is expected to produce 250 000 t/y of zinc metal in concentrate.