DEME extends contract to remove mine-derived sediments from the lower Ok Tedi river system in Papua New Guinea

Ok Tedi Mining Ltd. has awarded to Dredging International, member of the DEME Group, a five and a half-year extension of its ongoing contract to remove mine-derived sediments from the lower Ok Tedi river system, situated in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea, the company said in its press release.

OK Tedi Mining Ltd. (OTML) is a major producer of copper concentrate and operates an openpit copper, gold and silver mine at Mount Fubilan, in the Star Mountains of Papua New Guinea’s Western Province, approximately 24 km from the border of West Papua, Indonesia. The main objectives of the Lower Ok Tedi Dredging Project are to minimize over-bank flooding by reducing riverbed levels and alleviating floodplain dieback downstream of Bige along the Ok Tedi and Fly River through dredging a section of the river at Bige, approximately 100 km downstream from the mine.

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