Client name: Minara Resources

Location: Murrin Murrin, Western Australia

Total project value: $15m

Duration: 2 years

Services provided: Detailed design

Minara Resources Sulphur Melting Facility

Minara Resources requested Tetra Tech Proteus’ expertise in detailed design for mining and processing plants when they needed a new sulphur melting tank and associated infrastructure to boost sulphur melting capacity and decommission old sulphur pits.

Minara Resources’ Murrin Murrin operations is a brownfields environment requiring tie-ins to an existing plant.

Tetra Tech Proteus’ detailed design also  encompassed civil, concrete, structural steel, mechanical, piping and instrumentation for:

• Bulk sulphur feed conveyors and transfer chutes including conveyor modifications and ingenious design for multi-conveyor transfer chutes with low headroom
• Molten sulphur pumping and piping calculations and systems to feed filters plus layout and tie-in design
• Steam piping design and stress analysis
• Process design optimised melting tank steam coil and agitation requirements
• Structural steel and concrete design for a new elevated, conical sulphur melt tank
• Electrical and instrumentation design, incorporating hazard-rated equipment inside the designated sulphur hazardous area zones.