Riding the wave of the mining and resources boom, Western Australia's JV Engineering has landed a major contract for the A$1.8 billion Boddington Gold Mine (BGM) Expansion Project.

The BGM project involves building a new processing plant to retrieve gold and copper ore from 'basement' rock beneath the company's depleted oxide pits at Boddington, 130 kilometres south east of Perth.

JV Engineering, which specialises in steel fabrication and construction for the mining industry, won a contract to fabricate a copper gold flotation circuit for the new plant.

The circuit will include 30 flotation tanks and associated componentry, and will be built using more than 1000 tonnes of XLERPLATE® steel.

Each tank weighing about 35 tonnes will be fabricated from Grade 250 XLERPLATE® steel, and componentry will be fabricated from Grade 350 XLERPLATE® steel.

"We're also manufacturing top of tank bridges from rolled structural steel sections to hold the componentry in place and provide workers with access to it,"

JV Engineering's Director Peter Robbins says. JV Engineering began fabrication work at its Welshpool workshop in July 2006, and is expected to finish the job in early 2008. BGM is expected to start production later that year.

"The greatest challenge we face with large contracts like this is meeting the delivery deadline," Mr Robbins says. "We use XLERPLATE® steel because we know we can rely on BlueScope Steel's supply chain and the quality of the products."

Established in 1995 by Directors Peter Robbins and Norm Peter, JV Engineering employs approximately 50 people.

The company's extensive job portfolio of specialised mining equipment includes fabricating flotation tanks for Newcrest Mining Ltd's Telfer Mine in northwest Western Australia, and fabricating processing equipment for the Olympic Dam in South Australia.