Client
Utah International, Inc.
Location
Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
Utah International Island Copper Complex
The Island Copper mine is located on the northern end of Vancouver Island about seven miles south of Port hardy, in a remote logging and fishing community with a population of 2,000 people.
Fluor built the existing Island Copper complex in 1971. The concentrator has a capacity to process 33,000 tons of ore per day.
Island Copper's six autogenous grinding mills, each 32 feet in diameter and 14 feet in length, comprised the largest totally autogenous grinding circuit in the copper industry at the time. The grinding mills convert the ore into approximately 230,000 tons annually of copper concentrate and 1,800 tons of molybdenum concentrate.
The Client also awarded Fluor the follow-on work for the conceptual engineering and detail design for the extension to the 45,000 tpd copper concentrator building to house a new ball mill.
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