Partnerships Key As SA Tackles World-Class Gamsberg Zinc Project

At Vedanta Resources’ Gamsberg mine in the Northern Cape, Zest WEG Group is working closely with lead contractor ELB Engineering Services as a preferred supplier to standardise on its range of transformers and motors across a number of on-site applications. The Gamsberg project is South Africa’s largest current greenfields mining project, and will exploit one of the world’s largest zinc deposits. It is being developed at a capital cost of US$400 million and is expected to produce 250,000 tonnes a year of zinc metal in concentrate.