A hefty US$70 million underground equipment sale to JCHX Mining Management Co in Botswana will help Sandvik “deepen our partnership” with the China-based mining contractor, Sandvik mining business president Mats Eriksson says.
JCHX Mining is expected to take delivery of the equipment from the third quarter of this year, through to 2028, for use at MMG’s Khoemacau copper mine.
Sandvik is supplying loaders, trucks and drills, plus “access to digital monitoring solutions”.
Hong Kong Stock Exchange-listed MMG is investing US$936 million to expand Khoemacau via construction of a new 4.5 million tonnes per annum process plant and underground mine extensions that will take annual copper concentrate output to 130,000tpa and silver production past four million ounces a year. The expansion was approved late last year.
MMG says first copper concentrate from the expansion project is expected in the first half of 2028.
