This project included a truck tip, a ROM bin, a crushing station, a 2.5km overland conveyor, and two additional conveyors transferring and discharging onto the existing covered stockpile area conveyor, installed by Hogarths in 2001. Additionally, the project comprised three infrastructural buildings: an engineering workshop, a stores building, and a mobile equipment workshop.
Hogarths was responsible for the fabrication and installation of steelwork, platework, and the installation of free-issue mechanicals for the crushing and conveyor areas. The scope also included the fabrication and installation of steelwork for the three buildings, including roof and side sheeting, as well as up-and-over doors, windows, and air and water piping.
123 tonnes of overland conveyor steelwork were recovered from the client’s SMC plant, located 70km away. This steelwork had been lying idle in an erected state for many years. Hogarths dismantled, sandblasted, and repainted this steelwork at the SMC site before transporting it to the new site at Ngezi. The concrete support sleepers were also recovered and placed in position at the new site.
All steelwork and platework were fabricated, painted, and delivered from Hogarths’ Bulawayo workshops and the erection and installation of all steelwork, platework, and free-issue mechanicals were managed by Hogarths.
