Mormak meets Costa Rican challenge

In February of 2004, Mormak Equipment was awarded a 3.5 million dollar contract to design and manufacture a crushing plant for the Toronto based company, Glencairn Gold Corporation.

The equipment is the heart of their Gold Mine called Metales Procesados in Miramar, Costa Rica.

12 SEMIS TO TRANSPORT 

Overview of the equipment manufactured in Canada and shipped by road and sea.

A picture of our men with the Costa Rican mine crew.

Mormak Equipment built a Primary Jaw Crushing Plant consisting of a 30”x 54” jaw and 52”x 20’ vibrating grizzly feeder. Three secondary crushing plants each with a 400 H/P roller cone and 6’ x 20’ 3 deck screen were also supplied. Along with the crushing equipment, nine conveyors and three belt feeders were all constructed in only a fivemonth period.

Over 145,000 pounds of steel was used on this project. Twelve semi-trailer trucks hauled the fabricated components to the Vancouver shipyards. On Oct 8 / 04 they were loaded on the deck of the motor vessel Ice Pearl and three weeks later arrived and were off loaded in Porto Calderos’ Costa Rica, 36 kilometres from the mine site and stored until January, 2005.

On Jan 10 / 05 Mormak personnel arrived. Ten days later, they had the equipment set-up and ready for the electrical work to be completed.

On March 3 / 05 a Mormak crew returned for the initial commissioning of the plant. The mine was up and running by the 8th of March.

While most of the Mormak products such as Cedarapids Jaws, Cones & Screens are sold in Western Canada and the USA, they have constructed plants now located in the Arctic, Panama, Peru and the Caribbean.