Hatch Goba gets design contract for Zambia shaft project

Having successfully completed a two-year detailed engineering design project in 2013 for a 1 300-m-deep shaft for a project on the Zambian Copperbelt – which comprised a shaft complex with headgear, shaft steelwork, winder house, underground materials handling systems and a mine dewatering pumping system – engineering, project and construction management services supplier Hatch Goba was subsequently awarded the detailed engineering design for an expansion of the same project. The company’s scope of work covers two shafts, each about 2 000 m deep. Hatch Goba project manager Louis du Plessis states that the aim of the project is to access deeper parts of the orebody and thereby reduce operating costs.