{"id":1189944,"date":"2020-06-12T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1026838"},"modified":"2020-06-12T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T13:10:00","slug":"abb-zijin-to-work-together-at-copper-mine-in-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1189944","title":{"rendered":"ABB, Zijin to work together at copper mine in Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Multinational ASEA Brown Boveri (NYSE: ABB) and Zijin Mining, China\u2019s No.1 gold producer, entered into an agreement to install state-of-the-art, ring-geared mill drives and control systems at the Veliki Krivelj copper mine in Serbia.<\/p>\n

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In 2018, Zijin signed a $350-million deal with Serbia\u2019s Bor Copper Mine and acquired a majority stake in the Bor Copper project. It was one of China\u2019s largest investments in the eastern European country to date<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n

Located in the southern Bor District, Veliki Krivelj is a surface mining operation with an annual ore processing capacity of 10 million tonnes. It is part of the Bor Copper project, which includes three open-pit mines, an underground mine and a smelter, and in which Zijin has a majority stake.  <\/p>\n

The deal with ABB, which is part of a \u20ac200-million modernization strategy for the Bor Copper project, entails the provision of ring-geared mill drives and intelligent control systems for one SAG mill (2×6.5MW) and one ball mill (2×7.5MW), including electric control systems, drives, motors, transformers and end-to-end services.<\/p>\n

According to Stephen Zhu, who leads ABB Mining, Aluminum and Cement in North Asia and China, the firm\u2019s mill solutions will \u201creduce energy consumption, reduce mechanical stress, improve the service life of equipment, and boost operational performance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Swiss-Swedish multinational corporation will assist the Chinese giant in a €200-million modernization project of the Veliki Krivelj copper mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,2857],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1189944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190023,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189944\/revisions\/1190023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1189944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1189944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1189944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}