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SAXUM is a multidisciplinary engineering company with extensive experience in assistance

services to the Mining Industry. Our capabilities include full Engineering assistances as well as

Procurement and Construction Management services.

Through its companies in the USA, Brazil and Argentina SAXUM is attending the technical needs

of the mining industry in the Americas.

Our clients are the most important mining companies in the Americas. This is the best

demonstration of our experience and recognition.

SAXUM offers a flexible, tailor-made service for all your engineering and construction

management needs in the minerals processing industry. Our professionals are

specialists in their disciplines and it is our mission to bring our quality engineering

design services to the mining industry as we have been doing in the cement industry

for decades.

SAXUM offers full engineering services including civil/structural engineering,

mechanical and piping engineering, electrical engineering, instrumentation and

control, as well as metallurgic process engineering.

SAXUM also has Project and Construction Managers with broad experience in EPCM

mining projects who direct projects achieving high quality standards, always within

the specified time frame and budget. This can only be performed by using the latest

knowledge in managing projects and with the help of consistent databases that will

manage all the project information.


Projects

Pan American Silver – Argentina – Manantial Espejo

Detailed mechanical, electrical and structural engineering

Gold and silver extraction.

2000 tpd processing plant comprising primary crushing, grinding, gravity concentration and

leaching, CCD and Merrill Crowe.


Projects

Complete engineering and procurement services for the gold and silver Casposo mining plant.

Total control and management of the project.

Intrepid Mines Ltd. – Argentina – Casposo Project


Projects

FMC Lithium – Argentina – Salar del Hombre Muerto

Complete conceptual and basic engineering for low sodium lithium chloride brine plant.

Process

Civil & Structural

Mechanical & Piping

Electrical

Instrumentation & Control


Projects

Complete conceptual engineering for lithium carbonate and

potassium chloride plants.

Process

Civil & Structural

Mechanical & Piping

Electrical

CAPEX & OPEX

Eramet Ingenierie – Argentina – Salinas Grandes


Projects

Lithium carbonate and Potassium chloride plants in Salar del Hombre Muerto (Salta)

P&IDs development

Galaxy Lithium – Argentina – Sal de Vida project


Projects

Xstrata Copper – Argentina – Minera Alumbrera

New cleaning cells

Conceptual, basic and detailed engineering

Process and mechanical engineering


Projects


Tailings dam water recovery system

Tecnhical/economic analysis for different layout and equipments arrangement alternatives

Conceptual engineering

Mechanical & Piping

Civil & Structural


Projects


Pebbles crushing plant expansion

Detailed engineering

Structural and mechanical engineering


Projects

BARRICK – Argentina – Veladero Mine

Detailed engineering for crushing area

Static and dynamic analysis of foundations for primary and secondary crushers


Projects

CODELCO – Chile – Chuquicamata

Value recovery from fresh tails generated from the Chuquicamata Concentrate Plant

Detailed engineering

Procurement

Construction assistance


Projects

Minera IRL – Argentina – Don Nicolás project

Pre-Feasibility study

Preliminary process design criteria, plot plan and facilities layout

Tailings management design, Hydrological campaign/Water development campaign

Capex devolpment featuring all engineering disciplines


Projects

AngloGold Ashanti – Argentina – Cerro Vanguardia

Crushing/agglomerating plant and heap leach pumping station

Basic and detailed engineering

Mechanical & Piping

Civil & Structural

Electrical

Instrumentation & Control


Projects

Verification analysis of the Stacker Design by Thyssen-Krupp and design of its foundation

system

Xstrata Copper Peru – Antapaccay Project


Projects

Xstrata Copper Peru – Antapaccay Project

Verification of foundation design and evaluation of maximum differential settlements. Primary

Crusher.


Clients

MINERA TRITON S.A. Argentina (Pan American Silver). Complete mechanical, electrical and

civil/structural engineering of silver & gold Manantial Espejo mining plant. Basic & detail

engineering.

MINERA TRITON S.A. Argentina (Pan American Silver). Assistant services and construction

management at Manantial Espejo mining plant.

MINERA AGUILAR S.A. Argentina. Stress analysis in tunnel rocks.

BARRICK-GOLD - Veladero Mine. Argentina. Structural (seismic and gravitational loads)

Engineering of the primary crusher building.

BARRICK GOLD – Veladero Plant Argentina: structural engineering of the secondary crusher

buildings.

BARRICK GOLD – Veladero Plant Argentina: structural retrofit of screen tower and vibration

mitigation.

BARRICK GOLD – Veladero Plant Argentina: upgrade of screen tower, mechanical and

structural engineering

CERRO VANGUARDIA SA. Argentina. New pumping system for tails.

SOUTHERN PERU COPPER CORP. Engineering for hygienic gases emissions control at Ilo Plant

CERRO VANGUARDIA LTD. Argentina. Flotation line. Piping, mechanical, electrical and

structural engineering.

MINAS BUENAVENTURA. Peru. Development of CAPEX and OPEX for a new gold and silver

mine.


Clients

MINERA ALUMBRERA LTD. Argentina. (Xstrata Copper) Moving crusher system. Conceptual,

basic and detail mechanical and structural engineering.

MINERA ALUMBRERA LTD. Argentina. Fourth grinding line, mechanical and structural

engineering (basic and detailed).

MINERA ALUMBRERA LTD. Argentina. Precast concrete tunnel over reclaim belt conveyor

(200m long). Structural design (conceptual, basic and detail engineering).

MINERA ALUMBRERA LTD. Argentina. Structural design of water tower.

MINERA ALUBMRERA LTD. Argentina. Retrofit analysis and design of reinforcements of the

stacker structure supporting the main convenyor

MINERA ALUMBRERA LTD. Argentina. Pebbles line. Mechanical and structural re-design to

solve operation inefficiency of the original design (made by others).

MINERA ALUMBRERA LTD. Argentina. 1,200 Ton. Lime silo structural and foundation

engineering (conceptual, basic and detail engineering).

MINERA ALUMBRERA LTD. Argentina. 1,200 Ton. Lime silo mechanical engineering of the

loading and unloading system.

MINERA ALUMBRERA LTD. Argentina. Retrofit structural analysis of the damaged primary

crusher structure and reinforcement solution (basic and detail engineering).


Clients

AGUA RICA Argentina. Prefeasibility study to evaluate the use of the secondary grinding and

tail facilities of Minera Alumbrera Ltd. This study included mechanical, electrical and civil

engineering for the crushing, and transport systems.

COMPAÑÍA MINERA DISPUTADA DE LOS CONDES. Chile. Chagres expansion project.

Mechanical, electrical and structural engineering.

CIA. MINERA NEVADA, Chile (Barrick Gold), Lime and limestone plant for Pascua lama project,

conceptual and basic engineering.

ERNEST HENRY MINE. Xstrata Copper Australia. Design of reinforcements on the main

thickener structure to resolve severe damages.

MINERA IRL – Argentina. Feasibility study, conceptual and basic engineering.

CIA. MINERA CARMEN DE ANDACOLLO (TECK COMINCO), Chile. Seismic review and design

criteria revision of foundation of 1 x sag mill and 2 x ball mill for the hypogenous project.

MINERA ESPERANZA (ANTOFAGASTA MINERALS PLC), Chile. Seismic review and design criteria

revision of foundation of 1 x SAG mill and 2 x ball mill for the Esperanza project.

Replacement of dryer #5, Chuquicamata smelter (Codelco). Conceptual engineering along with

Kumera Oy.

PRECO2 Project (Codelco). Tailings recovery flotation plant. Basic engineering review, detail

engineering and construction assistance.


Clients

FMC LITHIUM, Salar del Hombre Muerto, Argentina. Low sodium lithium chloride brine Project.

Process, civil, mechanical, electrical and instrumentation & control conceptual and basic

engineering.

CERRO VANGUARDIA (ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI), Argentina. Basic and detailed engineering for

heap leach and grinding plant for 285 tph.

XSTRATA COPPER – Argentina: equalization of Rougher cells. Piping and mechanical

engineering.

XSTRATA COPPER – Peru: Design of the Truck Shop for the Antapaccay Project, Tintaya

Expansion.

XSTRATA COPPER – Peru. Design of the following buildings of the Antapaccay Project, Tintaya

Expansion: recuperated water tank; emergency tank; tank for thickener distribution; reactive

plant.

XSTRATA COPPER – Peru: Verification and optimization of the structural design of the Primary

Crusher foundation system for the Antapaccay Project, Tintaya Expansion .

XSTRATA COPPER – Peru: Mechanical, electrical and structural design of the truck-shop.

Antapaccay Project, Tintaya Expansion.

CEMTEC-PFEIFFER – Design of the ball mill foundation system for PASCUA LAMA Project by

Bechtel.

OROPLATA SA (GOLDCORP) – Design of a mine water treatment plant. Eureka mine.


Contact Us


Eng. Chris Hayman

General Manager SAXUM Eng. LLC.

Cell: +1 972.876.0584

[email protected]

Eng. Pablo Santamartina

Commercial Manager

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