Title: Ausenco Awarded Engineering Contract for Samarco’s Third Iron Ore Pipeline

Ausenco has been awarded a $7 million contract to deliver the detailed engineering for a 401 km iron ore pipeline for Samarco Mineração S. A. The iron concentrate slurry pipeline is part of Samarco’s expansion and will be the third pipeline for the project. It will link the Germano mine in Mariana, Brazil to the industrial complex at Ubú, Brazil and will have a nominal capacity of 20 Mt/y. Samarco is a privately held Brazilian mining company, owned by BHP Billiton and Vale, that produces 22.25 Mt of iron ore pellets annually, and is the second largest exporter on the seaborne iron ore pellet market in the world.

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