Mining, Minerals and Metals
Mining, Minerals and Metals
Since the 1980s, our skilled project teams have successfully built various mining, mineral processing and metals facilities, including expansion and upgrade projects at operating plants across North America. Today, our expert teams offer comprehensive solutions for every project stage, including feasibility, engineering, construction and commissioning services to ensure seamless project delivery. Our decades of experience in these markets have helped us refine our processes for developing reliable estimates and execution approaches. We achieve this by combining constructability knowledge with construction-driven engineering and world-class safety performance.
Markets We Serve
Mining
Our track record of undertaking mining projects with some of the most experienced professionals in the industry sets us apart. Our expertise includes constructing essential infrastructure and providing contract mining services across North America.
Mineral Processing
We provide flexible services from engineering through commissioning plus a variety of contracting strategies for both greenfield and brownfield projects in some of North America’s most remote locations.
Metals
Our estimating, pre-planning, detailed design and project execution methods offer our clients in the metals market comprehensive and high-performing solutions for their projects.
Long Harbour Nickel Processing Plant
LONG HARBOUR, NEWFOUNDLAND | BID-BUILD
Located on the island of Newfoundland, the Long Harbour Processing Plant is one of the largest in the world to use a hydrometallurgical process that refines 50,000 tons per year of nickel ore. KBAC Constructors, a partnership between Kiewit, BMA Constructors and GJ Cahill, installed mechanical, piping, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, electrical and instrumentation systems in the plant.
By the Numbers
#2
Top Contractor
ENR, 2024
600+
Mining, Minerals and Metals
Projects Since 1970
#3
Top Design-Build Firm
ENR, 2024
45+
year track record
with Mining, Minerals and Metals
#6
tOP cONTRACT mINING firm
Contractor – ENR, 2023
Commodity Experience
We enhance safety, responsibility and efficiency in commodity delivery for clients in the mining and metals sector.
Base Metals
Precious Metals
Battery Metals
Energy Transition Metals
Industrial Metals
Providing Reliable Solutions in Mining, Minerals and Metals
EARLY CONTRACTOR INVOLVEMENT
Our proficiency with early contractor involvement (ECI) creates opportunities to compress traditional bid-build project timelines by integrating project development, engineering, procurement and construction execution phases.
Engineering services
We offer full engineering services at all study phases, including Conceptual/Scoping, PEA, PFS and DFS. With a dedicated team of engineering professionals and subject matter experts in gold, silver, copper, moly, lithium, cobalt, nickel, lead, zinc, steel, iron ore and aluminum, we’re well-positioned to take your project through every design stage.
Self-perform capabilities
We can self-perform all major disciplines and call on our national network of skilled craft to drive down uncertainty and reduce total investment costs for our clients. With a focus on constructability, our jobs are staffed with highly trained professionals working at all project execution levels.
Flexible Project Delivery
As both a self-performing designer and constructor, Kiewit’s processes collaboratively engage project development, engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning teams to create an integrated, flexible approach that provides greater outcome certainty.