The Yandi Sustaining Project was a significant design and construct contract completed over 24 months across multiple work fronts within the Rio Tinto Yandicoogina Mine Lease.
This is to date, the largest project undertaken by the Linkforce Projects Team. The Linkforce offsite and onsite work force faced and overcame numerous challenges with this contract including:
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The construction of a temporary kitchen and dining facility for the construction workforce while the existing kitchen/dining faci...
Project Duration: 34 days
Scope and associated challenges
The project scope was to install a Biomax Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) to service the administration and workshop areas at the Regional Mine Site – Mesa J located a few kilometres from the small town of Panawonica in the Pilbara.
The previous WWTP was too small to meet demand, had failed to function correctly and had been replaced by a temporary system of storage tanks which needed frequent emptying. This system was far from ideal and...
Project Duration: Six weeks
Job Scope
Linkforce Projects and Construction division were given the task of designing and constructing a 7km Polypipe system for the disbursement of waste fines water at Yandicogina. The project entailed a detailed design process with input from all major stake holders to approve the design.
Once the design was approved Linkforce’s Projects and Construction team detailed a specific safety management and implementation plan which highlighted the challenges that would ne...
Project Duration: Three months
Project Scope
Install an additional 108 rooms and associated services, including Common Rooms, Laundry Facilities, Landscaping and Parking.
The project was to provide planning, management, labour, materials and plant for the installation of 108 rooms for a extension to an existing mine site.
Challenges that Linkforce Engineering faced was the geographical remoteness of the area for the supply of concrete, getting the rooms to site, and then craned into place. The groun...
The Yandi Fixed Plant Workshop Project was undertaken on behalf of Rio Tinto as a design and construct contract.
The site is in a remote location approximately 80km North West of Newman and comprises of a 2275m2, 8 bay workshop, tool store, locker room, 1735m2 office complex along with all supporting infrastructure.
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Case Study
The Fixed Price Operational Project scope called for the refurbishment of a Dual Apron Feeder along with the refurbishment of all the running modules on the Dual Car Dumper. This project was carried out at Rio Tinto’s Dampier Operations.
These works were completed together in conjunction, utilising the one available overhead crane in the car dumper structure. Execution of these scopes were time critical as the removal of the availability to offload iron ore from trains created business expos...
Project Duration: Five days
Job Scope
Linkforce Engineering Shutdown Operations were contracted to plan and implement a safe and effective means of removing and replacing the apron feeder and other associated maintenance works as they come up.
After a careful consultation period Linkforce Engineering Shutdown Operations developed an extremely detailed Gantt and Safety Management Plan incorporating all the history from the previous Apron Feeder work.
In this instance the challenges the project faced...
Job Scope
Project requirements were to lift out and replace vibrating screen and any other works with in the area as part of scheduled shutdown maintenance plan.
Other works included.
Replace and repair all worn liners and parent metal in the oversize hood.
Replace and repair all worn liners and parent metal in the oversize chute.
Replace all dampers and springs in undersize chute.
Remove existing rubber in under size chute and replace with ceramic wear tiles
Reinstate ready for plant start up.
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Location: Eastern Pilbara Mine Site
Project goal: Replace the existing vibrating grizzly and repair existing feed chute.
The primary crusher received extensive damage when an oversized boulder became lodged within the jaw crusher, and due to that piece of the plant not having a rock breaker, explosives were used to breakdown the boulder. This resulted in damaging the grizzly and also blew out the side of the feed chute.
Other associated work was also carried out with repairs to the structure includ...
Project Duration: Five days.
Job Scope
Linkforce were contracted to undertake a series of projects within the primary area of OHP1, at Area C.
Overall the project was broken up into five main areas as below:
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Design and fabricate custom sleigh to house winch for pulling and replacing apron feeder belt. This was fabricated offsite but installed during the shutdown.
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Remove and replace apron feeder
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Jaw crusher reline and jaw crusher feed chute structural repairs
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Grizzly underflow rebu...
