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Fort Knox Gold Mine Pre-Handling & Milling Facility
Project Information
- Project Location:
- Fairbanks, AK
- Status:
- Completed
- Structure Type:
- Misc Project
References
- Owner:
- Fairbanks Gold Mine, Inc.
Scope Of Work
The Osborne-TIC Alaska Joint Venture constructed the ore-handling and milling facilities for this gold mine near Fairbanks, Alaska. The Scope of work for this $38,000,000 project included installing milling equipment and support utilities, including: a gyratory crusher, a 1/2-mile long conveyor and support framework, a semiautogenous grinding (SAG) mill, 2 ball mills, 6 carbon-in-pulp tanks and 2 cyanide detox tanks. Components of this equipment and framework included: 1600 tons of structural steel, 80,000 lf of process and utility pipe, 570,000 lf of cable, 38,200 electrical terminations, 21,000 lf of metal cable support trays, 23,000 lf of grounding wire, 5 unit substations, and 42,000 units of connected horsepower.
A part of the mill infrastructure for this gold mine included installation of 6,300 feet of high density polyethylene (HDPE) water and sewer lines and an on-site sewage treatment system, consisting of two septic tanks and two drain fields.
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