Project Summary: Mechanised Lateral Development Advance
Client: Bergteamet AB
Location: Ireland
Date: 2015 – 2016
Bective Technical Services scope included a fully managed search, selection and payroll contract for:
The Site Project Management Team including Site Manager, Safety Supervision, Workforce Trainers, Underground Supervision, Project Controls, Procurement and Administration functions.
Certified and skilled operators with proficiency in over 20 pieces of major underground mobile equipment, including: hydraulic drills (jumbos), mechanized bolters, mechanized scalers, hydraulic concrete spraying equipment, Underground Loaders (LHD’s) up to 17 tonne, mine trucks up to 60 tonne, and a full complement of mobile support equipment.
Highly specialized craft personal to ensure the safe and efficient maintenance of the projects mobile equipment fleet allowing for optimized utilisation.
Supply Chain Management including the timely sourcing of spare parts and consumables to ensure mobile equipment maintenance schedules were completed on time.
The project was executed at Boliden Tara Mines zinc and lead mine near Navan, County Meath, Ireland. The orebody lies at a depth of 1,000 metres below the surface in carbonate-hosted lead-zinc ore deposits. It is the largest zinc mine in Europe and the ninth largest in the world producing approximately 2.6 million tonnes of ore of which 200,000 tonnes of zinc concentrate and 40,000 tonnes of lead concentrate are produced annually.