Published 27 January 2010
In the 50th jubilee year of running the company, PeBeKa will construct another strategic investment for KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. The works are connected with the thirty-first shaft sinking in Copper Industrial Area GG-1 in Kwielice located near Grębocice.
Mine Construction Company PeBeKa is the main mining works constructor of GG-1 shaft. It is the next investment, after SW-4 shaft sinking, which allows from the surface to reach a deposit of copper ore placed in the area of Głogów Głeboki Przemysłowy. GG-1 will be about 1.3 kilometres deep and with a diameter of 7.5 metres. Firstly, it will be constructed as ventilation shaft, and then it will be enlarged on central air conditioning and fans station facilities. The latest investment of PeBeKa is being carried out next to Kwielice in Grębocice district in Polkowice County. This strategic investment will be conducted in stages, and the first workings on surface are already planned in March 2010.
- We have already constructed 29 shafts, the thirtieth SW-4, is being sunk – says Jacek Kulicki, the president of PeBeKa - As we did before, while sinking GG-1, we will use a unique worldwide technique of shaft sinking with rock mass freezing. Probably, as it arises from preliminary hydrogeological recognition, the shaft will be with the deepest freezing zone. It is worth to say that the constructions of SW-4 shaft as well as GG-1 shaft are currently the biggest mining investments in Poland.