Ramu NiCo

An awareness team from the nickel/cobalt mine developer, Ramu NiCo Management (MCC) Limited and an officer from the Mineral Resources Authority (MRA) shared this information during a DSTP awareness held at Kavailo primary school in ward seven of Karkar LLG in Sumkar district recently.

The community was told that the mine tailings from Ramu NiCo are being disposed at certain depth into the deep ocean floor through an ocean canyon or trench.

Basamuk Refinery Operations Registered Manager for Works, Bill Hill emphasized this during the company’s Annual Working Conference held recently.

Senior management teams attended the conference from Kurumbukari Mine, Basamuk Processing Plant, Madang Operations Base and Beijing via video conferencing.

Ramu NiCo President, Dong Gaofeng delivered the company’s Annual Work Report and the Vice President, Meng Deyong announced the Outstanding Employees of the Year 2021. Chairman, Gao Yongxue conveyed key spirits of the MCC Group and the summary speech.

The country’s first Nickel/Cobalt Mine developer continues to provide valuable assistance for the health care of the people of Madang province.

Madang Provincial Health Authority Chairman, Charles Kalana and the Chief Executive of, Fidelis Waipma received the cheque from MCC Chairman, Gao Yongxue.

Five specialized medical beds were also donated to complement the K100,000 cheque donation, specifically for treatment of COVID-19 patients at the Modilon General Hospital.

This is part of land reclamation to have native plants restored after mining activities.

According to the Company’s Health, Safety and Environment Department, a team is currently involved in the Progressive Rehabilitation that includes Landform Rehabilitation and Vegetation Regeneration.

In the August 21 report the HSE Department stated that, there were plans, inspections and discussions done to actively implement the Rehabilitation Plans that were already in place in accordance to the OEMP Progressive Rehabilitation Plan and the Environment Permit WD-L3 (115).

At the end of February, Ramu Nico recorded 7578.10 tons of Cobalt-Nickel Hydroxide (dry basis), equating to 3008.77 tons of metallic nickel.

The milestone is attributed to historical nickel recovery rate this year from 88.175 per cent in January to 89.09 per cent in February, signifying a technical bottleneck improvement with guaranteed production stabilization in the future.

This came at a time when world nickel prices stood at US$10,920 per ton and cobalt price at US$$51,000 per ton, according to London Metal Exchange.

That ‘s according to President of Ramu Nico Management Ltd. Wang Jicheng.

Jiang said the project is the biggest investment by the Metallurgical Corporation of China (MCC) in the Pacific and the largest overseas investment on mineral resources.

His comments were made during the Madang Investment Summit last month.

According to the Ramu Nico’s official website, Jiang said the success of Ramu NiCo was because the company took a new approach in developing and operating the project from Kurumbukari Mine to Basamuk Refinery.

Ramu NiCo Community Affairs supervisor at the Kurumbari Mine, Jacky Xu’ai issued the challenge recently.

He said Chinese love to have vegetables every time in their meals, therefore, local farmers must produce in abundance and sell to the catering company that is serving the mine and the refinery.

“Chinese people love greens and fruits every time in their meals so farmers must produce more and sell to the NCS-Raibus catering company that’s providing meals for the workers,” Xu’ai said.

The purpose of the visit was mainly to inspect the refinery compliance of storage, transportation and handling of the dangerous goods like explosives and fuel, permit application and related fire-fighting systems.

The trio visited the explosive storage area, inspected the specialized vehicles used to transport explosives as well as the Basamuk Refinery heavy fuel storage area and the fuel station.

President of Ramu NiCo Management Ltd, Wang Jicheng announced  on Thursday，September 8when sharing his Company’s experience at the Madang Investment Summit staged at the Madang Resort Hotel. 

Wang said the success of Ramu NiCo Project is because of the fact that the company had approached a new path of development and operation from Kurumbukari Mine to Basamuk Refinery. This is different from the initial approach established by its joint-venture partner Highlands Pacific Limited in its feasibility study. 

Nickel/cobalt mine developer, Ramu NiCo Management (MCC) last weekend issued the precaution as its workers began work on building concrete foundations to its slurry pipeline which runs adjacent to the main Madang-Ramu Highway 42 kilometres out of Madang town.

The work currently being carried out by the mine contractors called MCC 19 is amongst other maintenance work Ramu NiCo (MCC) has been doing as part of its community assistance work to servicing the vital road link which serves Madang to Lae and the Highlands region of good and services.