SNC Lavalin Awarded Greenfield Copper Project

SNC-Lavalin has been awarded a contract by Cobre Las Cruces S.A. (CLC) to carry out engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the processing plant and associated infrastructure at its new greenfield copper project near Gerena, Spain. The contract has a value of approximately CAN$35 million. Cobre Las Cruces is 70% owned by Inmet Mining Corporation and 30% by Leucadia National Corporation.

"We are very pleased to be working with Cobre Las Cruces on this strategic project and with this opportunity to leverage our expertise in leaching, solvent extraction, electrowinning and design out of our Centre of Excellence for Copper in our Santiago office," said Fernando Garcia, Vice-President and General Manager of SNC-Lavalin Chile S.A. "The plant will have a design capacity of 72,000 tonnes of copper per year."

"This contract reflects CLC's confidence in our expertise in designing and managing construction of major copper projects," said Pierre Duhaime, Executive Vice-President, SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., in charge of worldwide mining and metallurgy operations. "We also recognize the value of repeat business from Inmet, having successfully completed another EPCM gold project for the company in Canada."

Work is underway and the project is scheduled for completion, start-up and commissioning in early 2008.

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Posted 20/01/07

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