Bucyrus/CAT Shovel PCR at First Quantum’s Sentinel Copper Mine in Zambia
Start of a 10 month Dragline Relocation Project: From Optimum mine to Glencore’s TOC Mine
Lucient(Botswana) awarded a 3 year contract to preferred labour partner Barloworld
Start of the 5 month Dragline Boom Rebuild. The 1st ever onsite Dragline Boom Rebuild on African Soil
Glencore’s TOC Mine 27 day Dragline Shutdown in Mpumalanga
Middleburg: On behalf of Barloworld Equipment, the servicing of a dragline at GGV, a Glencore Mine
20,000hr overhauls on the Jwaneng Mine 930E Komatsu fleet (of 60 haul trucks)
Complete factory rebuild of a Le Tourneau L1850 Electric drive FEL. The first of its kind in Africa
Completed 2 x rope shovels overhauls, one being a 25,000hrs overhaul of a Bucyrus Shovel
Construction of temporary border facilities at the Kazungula Transnational Bridge Project
Official opening of the Letlhakane Branch
Design and installation of the first fully integrated , multi-vehicle collision avoidance system (SAFEMINE) in the Botswana mining industry
Assembled and commissioned 4 X Komatsu 830E trucks, Orapa Open Pit
Assembled and commissioned 56 x Komatsu 930E electric drive trucks in 18months. The most of any single contractor in Southern Africa, Jwaneng Cut 8 Operations
End of life extension and Centurion System upgrade of P&H 2800XPB electric rope shovel. Fist of its kind in Africa, Jwaneng Open Pit
Assembled and commissioned 2 x Le Tourneau L1850s electric drive FELs Jwaneng Open Pit
Fabricated and erected temporary Cut 8 workshop, Jwaneng Cut 8 Project
MCB lays pipeline designs, manufactures, installs and commissions high pressure pit dewatering pipeline, Jwaneng Open Pit
Expansion into the plant to provide repair and maintenance services on ThyssenKrupp High Pressure Roll Crushers and Joest / Multotec / Vibramech wash screens, Jwaneng Recrush Plant
Completion of the Mega Mining onsite workshop, Jwaneng Mine Blue Area
MCB registered on the Debswana vendor list
1st Mining job – Complete overhaul of a P&H 100B series electric blast-hole drill, Jwaneng Open Pit
Maiden job – Construction of a 30m x 60m workshop in Commerce Park, Gaborone, Botswana
Mechanical Construction Company Botswana (MCB) receives its Certificate of Incorporation