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It is with great pride that Protea Chemicals Namibia partners with industry to add value to the Namibian economy and communities. We are proud of our partnership with Dundee Precious Metals Tsumeb ensuring their Sulphuric Acid production of about 225 000 ton per annum is marketed and distributed safely by both road and rail. In addition to the supply of chemicals, our services offered to customers include the following:
Safe loading and offloading of product by well trained and experienced resources Logistics planning and management along with all related administrative functions SHEQ management and enforcement along the transportation route and on site Emergency response systems and equipment strategically located along the route IT document systems integration and management Tracking of shipments and enhanced business intelligence through innovative technology information systems Community hazardous chemicals awareness training Fire department and medical centre hazardous chemicals awareness training Marketing of customer products Contingency planning and risk mitigation Joint negotiations with all stakeholders including advice leveraged from extensive market knowledge
It is our vision to create customer wealth by leveraging the collective knowledge of our group and reduce risk through a total cost of ownership strategy that aims to ensure that our customers remain a profitable, sustainable and relevant member of the Namibian community.
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“Today it is seen as one of the examples of an underground mine which is modern and uses latest technologies to operate the mine and for this reason it is well visited by most of the major global mining companies.” However, the growing success at Chelopech soon spawned a new problem for Dundee. As complex copper concentrate output rapidly increased from the mine, it became more difficult to find a market for the product, which contained high levels of arsenic – a toxic substance that requires capturing during the ore processing stage. So, in 2010 the company acquired the Tsumeb copper smelter in Namibia. “We invested in the smelter to make it modern and sustainable and to make it a global complex copper concentrate smelter, one that could not just treat our concentrates but complex concentrates from around the world,” says Howes.
In the time since then, Dundee has doubled throughput out of the smelter, cleaned up its environmental footprint and continues to treat global third party concentrates along with the company’s own concentrate from Chelopech. “We have eliminated the majority of gas emissions coming out of the smelter stack. We now produce an acid that captures the SO2 emissions and then sell that acid into the market to uranium producers and other producers that need acid for their process.”
Development and exploration assets
Along with the Chelopech mine, Dundee also took ownership of the Krumovgrad exploration asset in Bulgaria as part of the acquisition, and the company has been
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