NRW announced the award of approximately AUD 90 million of bulk earthworks for Rio Tinto’s Yandi Sustaining Project at Yandicoogina mine in the Pilbara, Western Australia.

The scope of the Yandi Sustaining Project is to expand the mine production capacity. The works will include:

1. Over 1 million cubic metres of excavation for diversion drains (including 640,000 cubic metres of rock excavation)

2. Over 500,000 cubic metres of embankment construction

3. Over 200,000 cubic metres of levee construction

4. Over 4,400 lineal metres of culverts

5. Construction of a 48 metre long wide bridge over an operating railway

6. Construction of 2 floodways

The Bulk Earthworks Contract is expected to run for 40 weeks commencing in late November 2012. At its peak, there will be over 300 workers required for this project.

Source - NRW Holding

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