The construction of Vale’s nickel processing plant and support infrastructure in Long Harbour Newfoundland has required two thousand four hundred trades people for the starting phases of the project. This number is estimated to jump to 4,000 workers who will be working on the site during peak construction scheduled for October.
The $3.6 billion facility will process nickel concentrate from Vale’s operations in Voisey’s Bay, Labrador. The hydrometallurgical facility was designed to produce 50,000 tonnes per year of nickel metal and associated copper and cobalt.
The infrastructure and civil engineering were designed in Vale/Fluor’s St. John’s office, while the engineering of the process facilities was done in Fluor’s Vancouver office. Six of the process buildings were pre-engineered buildings designed by Colony.
The process area consists of approximately 800,000 square feet. The majority of buildings in this area were erected on site with steel shipped from the U.K. to the port of Argentia. Some of the buildings are the largest in Newfoundland with the Neutralization Building standing at about 1100 feet long, 200 feet wide, and 60 feet high.
Construction of the plant is scheduled to finish in 2013.
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