Mondium contracts Whittens for $20m

Family-owned business Whittens has secured further work in the resources sector under a new $20 million sub-contract with Mondium for work at Rio Tinto’s Western Turner Syncline Phase 2 mine.

The Monadelphous and Lycopodium joint venture has tasked Whittens with completing detailed earthworks and structures for the new processing plant at the Western Turner mine site, near Tom Price.

Whittens chief executive Louise Whitten said the company was proud to have been selected for Rio's project.

The Osborne Park-based company has been involved in many major resources and oil and gas projects across Australia, Whittens said, including with Roy Hill under a $14.4 million contract, announced last month.

Roy Hill contracted Whittens to build a 3.5 kilometre-long hydraulic structure – known as the Zulu West hydraulic structure project – as well as build central transfer ponds at Roy Hill's iron ore mine in the Pilbara.

Whittens was established in 2001 by brothers Tyron Whitten and Clayton Whitten.