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Hindustan Zinc and CIMIC Group Companies join hands to set up India's First Zinc Tailings Recycling Facility
India based Hindustan Zinc Limited, a Vedanta Group company and the world's largest integrated zinc producer, announced today that it has awarded contracts to CIMIC Group companies Sedgman and Leighton Asia for the development of India's first zinc tailings recycling facility at its flagship Rampura Agucha Mines (RAM) in Rajasthan.
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