YIT builds a lifting tower in a Kittilä mine
YIT CORPORATION Press release, May 31, 2019, at 11:00 a.m.YIT and goldmining company Agnico Eagle Finland have signed a contract concerning building a lifting tower in Kittilä’s gold mine Rimpi. The total value of the contract is approximately EUR 10 million. The project will be entered into the order book of the year’s second quarter. The project’s aim is to build a lifting tower, made of reinforced concrete, whose bottom area is about 12 x 16 metres and height about 100 metres. The lifting tower will be made with the slip-form construction technique, which refers to the uninterrupted