“Norilsk Nickel” is launching its largest project in recent years – Bystrinsky GOK in the Trans-Baikal Territory. Today, start-up operations began here, the company reperasentative said.
Bystrinsky plant will extract and enrich gold-iron-copper ores and produce copper, gold-bearing and magnetite concentrates.
“Today, the factory will be able to take the first ton of ore. After the construction works and after the commissioning work was done idly, when every stage of the process chain was tested without load, a very important moment for every large industrial enterprise comes in: commissioning under load, when the first ore is supplied, “explains Sergei Dyachenko, first vice-president of Norilsk Nickel.
First, the factory will work for 20% of the load, he said, then – by 50%. By 2020, the load will be 100%. After reaching the designed capacity of 10 million tons of ore per year, Bystrinsky GOK will be the third asset of Norilsk Nickel along with the main enterprises located in Taimyr and the Kola Peninsula.
Bystrinsky GOK will produce 67,000 tons of copper, 2.9 million tons of magnetite concentrate and 252,000 ounces of gold. This will allow Norilsk Nickel to increase the share of copper production. For nine months the company produced 290,874 tons of copper.
The total cost of the Bystrin project, according to Dyachenko, was $ 1.5 billion, including investment in the construction of the railway. “Norilsk Nickel” invested in the construction of the railway line 7 billion rubles.
By the launch of the Bystrinsky GOK a power transmission line with a capacity of 250 MVa, a length of 234 km, was built. The construction of the transmission line lasted in 2015. To implement the project, Norilsk Nickel created a design company – BESK. The contractor of the project was a wholly owned subsidiary of FGC UES – CIUS EEC. The cost of the line – 220 kV OHL Kharanorskaya GRES – Bystrinskaya with 220 kV Bystrinskaya substation – is estimated at about 8.4 billion rubles. “FGC UES” will buy from BESC the constructed facilities until 2021.
“We are proud to have managed in just four years to build from scratch a plant that is comparable in scale with the construction of the period of industrialization,” the words of Vladimir Potanin, president of the company, are quoted in the message of Norilsk Nickel.
Now Norilsk Nickel owns 50.07% of Bystrinsky GOK. Last year, the company sold 13.33% of the project for $ 100 million to the Chinese consortium Highland Fund, among which the private Chinese fund Hopu Investment. And last week the structure of Potanin and the owner of the ESN group Grigory Berezkin – CIS NRF Holdings – completed the purchase of 36.6% stake in the Bystrinsky project from Norilsk Nickel for $ 275 million.
Potanin said that in the future Bystrinsky GOK can be combined with the Baim copper area (located in Chukotka). This project belongs to co-owners Evraz and minority shareholders of Norilsk Nickel Roman Abramovich and Alexander Abramov. “Norilsk Nickel” “very carefully” looks at the Baimskoye field and is waiting for the results of due diligence before the end of 2017, reports “Interfax” the words of Dyachenko.
The company JSC “Teplokhimmontazh” took an active part in the construction project of the Bystrinsky GOK.
In 2016, JSC “Teplokhimontazh” built a monolithic reinforced concrete tank for circulating water supply of the pumping station for the Concentrating Plant, while constructing this structure, the technology of erecting walls with sliding formwork was used.
Tank characteristics:
- The height of the wall is 9.5 m,
- The diameter of the wall is 18 m,
- The thickness of the wall is 400 mm,
- The area of the concrete surface is 1,050 m2.
- 48 people worked, incl. 5 engineering.
In 2017 a drying workshop for magnetite concentrate and three monolithic reinforced concrete silos were built.
Characteristics of silos:
- The height of the wall is 35.6 m,
- The diameter of the wall is 13 m,
- The wall thickness is 500-600 mm,
- The area of the concrete surface of the 3 silos is 8 687 m2.
- 92 people work, incl. 6 engineering.
Taking into account the most complicated climatic conditions and logistics, all the facilities are realized on time, in compliance with all requirements to the quality of construction.
It should be emphasized that the company JSC “Teplokhimontazh” today is the only Russian construction organization that has adapted the technology of concreting monolithic structures using sliding formwork. We ourselves design and manufacture shuttering equipment for sliding, including the hydraulic part.
In the version of our execution this turnkey solution includes designing, concreting and own equipment.
Based on the materials of the Vedomosti newspaper