RUC Cementation Mining Contractors has been awarded the raiseboring contract for the Bellevue Gold project in Western Australia.
The contract is valued at $15.8 million over 28 months, and is in line with the assumptions made in the recent project update, with the pre-production portion also in line with the pre-production capital expenditure forecast.
The scope of works centres around the establishment of vent rises, return air rises and underground escapeways at the project.
RUC, which is a subsidiary of the Murray and Roberts Group, is a multinational engineering and contracting company, and is regarded as the industry leader for raiseboring, having proprietary techniques and equipment, cost-saving initiatives and a localised offsite support centre based in Kalgoorlie. RUC also completed several raisebores at the project during the previous operations.
Bellevue managing director Steve Parsons said RUC had joined the company’s team of Tier 1 contractors, adding to the vast experience and specialist skills being assembled at the project.
“Having the best possible team on site helps ensure we will continue to execute our development plan, which remains on time and on budget with 90 per cent of our pre-production contracts locked in,” he said.
“The record development rates being recorded are also playing a key role in the precise execution of our strategy, providing further evidence that we are well on track to be the next major ASX gold producer with low operating costs and a 10-year-plus mine life”.
