Metso has secured approximately €70 million in remaining major contracts under its August 2024 frame agreement to supply Metso Plus beneficiation and dewatering equipment to Barrick Mining’s 50%-owned Reko Diq copper-gold project in Pakistan. The package covers advanced flotation and dewatering systems sized for large-scale porphyry copper-gold throughput, aimed at improving concentrate recovery and water management in an arid environment. For process engineers and project teams, the deal confirms Metso’s technology as the baseline flowsheet for Reko Diq’s concentrator and tailings dewatering design.

Byrnecut is marking 15 years at the Jabal Sayid underground copper mine near Medina, where it has managed ramp and decline development, longhole stoping and paste backfill under a life-of-mine contract with Ma’aden Barrick Copper Company. The contractor’s scope has expanded from initial access and infrastructure development to full production mining, fleet maintenance and training of a largely Saudi workforce, supporting output from multiple ore lenses down to more than 1,000 m depth. Its long-term presence signals continued reliance on international underground specialists as Saudi Arabia courts new greenfield projects ahead of the 2026 Future Minerals Forum.

McLanahan is promoting compact process solutions such as its recessed-plate filter presses and QUICKCHANGE filter cloth system to lift plant efficiency and reduce tailings water loss in existing mines. The QUICKCHANGE design allows individual cloths to be swapped without removing the plate pack, cutting press downtime, manual handling and confined-space exposure during maintenance. For brownfield operations constrained by legacy footprints and power limits, the company is positioning modular dewatering and screening units as bolt-on upgrades rather than full plant rebuilds.