FX Minas Construtora · since 1991

Mining, soil and rock excavation and heavy infrastructure

Open-pit mine operation, large-volume earthworks, drainage, paving and vegetation clearing, with our own fleet and crews. 35 years delivering large projects with safety and care for people.

About the group

Moving soil, rock and ore in Brazil's largest projects since 1991

We are the construction company of FX Minas Group. We run open-pit mine operations, large-volume soil and rock excavation, surface and deep drainage, minor drainage structures, paving of accesses and service roads, retaining structures, slopes and dams, plus vegetation clearing and site preparation for mining, railways, hydropower plants and wind and solar farms across the country.

Own fleet, crews trained in-house and geotechnical production control. That is how we hit production targets without giving up the safety of the people operating. We bring together several companies and a large team, with the care that heavy engineering demands for people and land.

35+
years of experience
since 1991
Group
companies in the group
one purpose
Own crews
employees
in the field, every day
Some of our clients
Vale
Alcoa
Cemig
Sigma Lithium
FX Minas Group fleet yard or mining pit
Own fleet and crews in the field

Some of our clients

  • Vale
  • Alcoa
  • Cemig
  • White Martins
  • Norte Energia
  • Andrade Gutierrez
  • Camargo Corrêa
  • Prodiel
  • INB — Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil
  • Barbosa Mello
  • Grupo Serveng
  • Grupo CR Almeida
  • Santo Antônio Energia
  • Ápia
  • Energia Sustentável do Brasil
  • Enerpeixe
  • Sinop Energia
  • Sefac — Serra do Facão Energia
  • Shell Energy
  • Governo do Estado do Acre
  • Sigma Lithium

Mining and mine operation

From stripping to haulage, we run the mining cycle with our own fleet

We run open-pit mines end to end: stripping, loading and haulage of ore and waste, with operational control, production targets and integrated management of the mining cycle. Our crews work within the client's mine plan, with daily measurement of productivity and fleet availability.

Moving soil and rock at scale is what FX Minas has done since 1991. What changes at the mine is the pace: every hour an excavator sits idle is ore that doesn't reach the plant. That's why we work with our own fleet, our own maintenance and our own crews: three fronts that don't depend on third parties to get back to producing.

Stripping and waste removal until the ore body is exposed
01Stripping
01
Stripping and site preparation
Vegetation clearing, cleanup, waste-rock removal and stockpiling until the ore body is exposed.
02
Loading
Hydraulic excavators and wheel loaders feeding haulage at the pace set by the mine plan.
03
Ore and waste haulage
Large off-highway trucks and road dump trucks running controlled cycles.
04
Dumping
Ore and waste discharged at the right spot — dumping yard, waste pile or crusher hopper — according to the mine plan.
05
Crushing
Raw ore fragmented to the grain size the process requires, feeding the next beneficiation stages.
06
Final product
Beneficiated ore within the client's quality spec, ready for stockpiling, loading or shipment.
Hydraulic excavatorsOff-highway trucksDump trucks

Own fleet

Our own equipment, ready to mobilize

An own fleet means predictability. We control maintenance, availability and the pace of the job, and we don't depend on rentals to hit a production target. We have production and support equipment, with workshops, lubrication convoys and maintenance crews following the operation inside the work front.

Complete fleet
production and support
ready to mobilize
Production line
earthworks
and clearing
Support and infrastructure
workshop, convoy
and logistics
Dump truck from the FX Minas fleet, side view
SANY SY750 hydraulic excavator from the FX Minas fleet
SANY off-highway truck from the FX Minas fleet
D6T crawler dozer with a guarded cab for clearing work
Wheeled tractor on support duty
Caterpillar 140M motor grader from the FX Minas fleet
D6N crawler dozer pushing soil
Grapple saw handling logs
Caterpillar wheel loader with the bucket resting on the ground
Sheepsfoot roller compacting a fill layer
Caterpillar D8T crawler dozer at a cut face
Forwarder hauling logs
Large hydraulic excavator from the FX Minas fleet
Pneumatic roller sealing the surface
Feller buncher cutting trees
SDH-700 drill rig from the FX Minas fleet
Material haulage
Dump truck
112units

Day to day

Our crews and equipment at work

  • CAT articulated off-highway truck from the FX Minas fleet, unit CAX-13
  • SANY off-highway truck from the FX Minas fleet, unit CSX-21
  • FX Minas crew gathered on site during the night shift
  • FX Minas crew gathered in front of the site transport buses
  • SANY SY750 excavator from the FX Minas fleet with a bucket full of soil
  • Row of CAT 740B and SANY off-highway trucks parked at an open-pit mine
  • Nighttime Daily Safety Briefing (DDS) with most of the crew gathered on site
  • CAT D8T track-type tractor from the FX Minas fleet at the cut face
  • Row of CAT excavators parked at the FX Minas site, with red mining soil in the background

Fleet standardized by equipment family and renewed by life cycle.

Delivered projects

Volumes that prove the scale

Mining, railways, power plants and energy farms across the country. In large projects, what counts is the volume delivered on time.

Tupiratins Railway
Large volume
Earthworks along a long railway alignment.
Railway section · Caetité/BA
Large scale
Soil and rock excavation and haulage on a railway section.
Andrade Gutierrez Consortium
Fill and excavation
Compacted fill and large-volume excavation.
Vale · Barão de Cocais/MG
Brucutu Mine
Access roads, drainage, earthworks and concrete structures.
Solar farms · CE and PI
Site preparation
Site preparation in Quixeré/CE and Ribeira do Piauí/PI.
INB · Brazilian Nuclear Industries
Roads and accesses
Construction of roads and access ways.
Combined, these projects represent a huge volume of soil and rock moved across the country.

Safety with people

The people operating are our greatest asset

We work with rock, slopes, power and heavy equipment. So safety here is not a department that audits afterwards: it goes into the planning of every front, the training of every operator and the routine of every shift. These are people who need to get home at the end of the day, and that is the one production target that is never negotiated.

Training before operating
No operator takes an equipment seat without training and refreshers. We develop workforce in the project's own region and certify internally before release to the front.
Mine traffic under control
Circulation rules, signage and segregation between light vehicles and production equipment across yards, accesses and piles. It is the mine's most frequent risk, treated as a priority.
Maintenance is a safety item
Own fleet with preventive maintenance plans, field lubrication convoys and daily equipment inspection before each shift. A well-maintained machine is a protected operator.
Response inside the work front
Own ambulances, emergency teams and staff transport in fleet buses. The commute to the site is also part of the safety scope.
Worker in full PPE in the field, close-up

Demanding standard

We operate within the health, safety and environmental requirements of clients like Vale, Petrobras, Cemig and Alcoa, audited front by front.

Local crew in training or preserved area after vegetation clearing
Continuous upskilling
professionals trained in safety and operation

Social impact and sustainability

People and land at the center of every project

Wherever the group works, the commitment goes beyond technical delivery: caring for those who build, preserving the surroundings and leaving communities stronger than we found them.

Training and occupational safety
Continuous training programs and a safety culture across all work fronts.
Environmental care in vegetation clearing
Responsible management and recovery of affected areas, respecting each biome.
Local job creation
Priority to hiring from the regions where the projects happen, moving the local economy.

ESG

Environmental, social and governance, under construction

Safety, environmental care and community development are already part of our daily work in the field. Now we are turning that work into a formal ESG program for the group — still young and being built.

Structured environmental management
Formalizing, in a single program, the environmental practices already applied on each work front.
Continuous social commitment
Expanding training and local job creation into a long-term social agenda.
Governance in the making
Structuring transparency policies and practices shared by the group's 8 companies.
Recovered area or crew in the field, institutional tone
Agenda under construction
first steps of a formal ESG program for the group