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Downer’s Mineral Technologies business has signed a contract with the Egyptian Black Sands Company to provide a comprehensive suite of equipment, engineering design and support services for the development of the first mineral sands operation in Egypt.
In 2006 the Nuclear Materials Authority of Egypt engaged Mineral Technologies to develop a Comprehensive Feasibility Study for their El Burullus Black Sands project on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast. Services provided included:
Following completion of the work the project remained undeveloped for many years until the Egyptian Government identified the project to be of national significance. The Egyptian Black Sands Company was subsequently formed with shareholding by the federal government (military shareholding, nuclear material authority department and the provincial government).
EBSC require a floating mineral sands concentrator plant and a land-based Mineral Separation Plant (MSP) to produce ilmenite, rutile, zircon and garnet products from black sands in the Burullus region.
Located approximately 170km north of Cairo, the mine site is on the Mediterranean coast next to Lake Burullus.
Mineral Technologies' scope of work includes:
All works, other than those identified as onsite, will be executed or arranged from MT’s office in Carrara, Queensland, Australia.
The contract duration will be approximately 24 months.