QIT Madagascar Minerals facility

Wärtsilä extends O&M deal for Rio Tinto mine power plant in Madagascar


Issue 512 - 16 Sep 2024 - By Marc Howard | 1 minute read

Wärtsilä has renewed a long-running operations and maintenance (O&M) deal at QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM), an ilmenite mine in Fort Dauphin which is majority owned by mining supermajor Rio Tinto Group. The extension of the long-running arrangement will see thermal capacity integrated with a new solar, wind, and battery energy storage plant.

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