Thiess awarded $1.52b contract extension for Arutmin mines

Mining contractor Thiess (Indonesia), a unit of Australian engineering and contracor group Leighton Holdings has been awarded a US$1.52 billion contract extension by PT

Arutmin Indonesia for the operation of the Senakin and Satui Coal Mines in South Kalimantan.

Thiess Indonesia?s operations commenced at Senakin in 1989 and at Satui in 1998 with both operations being moved to a single contract in 2000. The new contract is an extension to the existing Life of Mine and covers an additional 7 year period.

Thiess will continue its existing scope of work which includes mine planning, overburden removal, coal mining and transportation, plus operation of the coal processing plants and barge loading ports.

Thiess Indonesia President Director Roy Olsen commented that operations on both sites would be ramped up over the coming months to increase production to 12 MT of coal and 120 million cubic meters of overburden per annum.(denny)