Company Announcement to the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority
No. 44-2008, 31 October 2008
FLSmidth Minerals has signed a contract worth approximately USD 45m
(DKK 260m) with Canadian Copper Mountain Mining Corporation (Similco
Mines Limited) for equipment for its open pit copper mine close to
Princeton in southern British Columbia, Canada.
FLSmidth Minerals is to provide detailed engineering and design, as
well as manufacturing and procurement of equipment, including QA/QC
reporting and testing, for one gyratory crusher, one SAG mill, and
two ball mills. The mills will be designed for a daily throughput of
35,000 tonnes of copper ore.
Copper Mountain Mining Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Similco Mines Ltd., a Canadian mineral exploration and development
company. Its primary asset is the Similco mine, to which FLSmidth
Minerals will be supplying the milling equipment.
The contract will contribute beneficially to FLSmidth's earnings
until the last equipment has been supplied in late 2010.
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Please address any questions regarding this announcement to Group
Chief Executive Officer Jørgen Huno Rasmussen, FLSmidth & Co. A/S at
+45 36 18 18 00.
For further information about FLSmidth, please visit
www.flsmidth.com.
Yours faithfully
Pernille Friis Andersen
Corporate Communications & Investor Relations
