Western Metal's Lennard Shelf 10-Year Plan
Western Metals’ March 1998 Quarterly Report said it updated its ten-year plan to account for recent discoveries and changes in resources.
The company''s base plan is to continue to operate its two plants, Cadjebut and Pillara, at a combined milling rate of approximately 2.4 million tonnes per annum...
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Golden Cities Gold Project
AMX Resources announced a 40 per cent increase in the estimated gold resource at its Golden Cities gold project to 824,000 ounces averaging 3g/t. (This is based only on the Havana Suva and Jakarta deposits.)
The total resource at Golden Cities rose to just over 17.6 million tonnes averaging 1.9g/t ...
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Boddington Gold Mine
The Boddington gold mine joint venture partners (Normandy Mining, Acacia Resources and Newcrest Mining) said they were progressing a number of initiatives to extend the life of the existing operation at Boddington while continuing to advance the Wandoo gold project.
A recent development includes an...
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Jangardup South Mineral Sands Project
Cable Sands (WA) General Manager Chris Davies said development of the company''s Jangardup South heavy mineral sands deposit was scheduled to commence in 2002, once the Jangardup deposit has been depleted.
Mr Davies said the proposal was to move existing infrastructure from the Jangardup magnesite ...
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Premier Coal Mine
Premier Richard Court has officially opened Wesfarmers Coal''s Premier mine at Collie.
Following completion of the $120 million investment at Premier, Wesfarmers Coal expects to mine about 135 million tonnes of coal over the next 35 years.
Wesfarmers Coal successfully tendered for a seven-year con...
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Transform WA Capital Works Program
A major State-wide capital works program called TransformWA has been announced. The construction project will see $1.3 billion spent across Western Australia over the next ten years.
The program will include:
the creation of an expressway from Perth to Mandurah by 2000
widening the Narrows Brid...
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Oil & Gas Strategy
Commerce and Trade Minister Hendy Cowan has outlined a strategy to help WA firms win contracts to supply and service oil and gas projects planned for the North-West and the Timor Sea.
Mr Cowan said the five-year strategy provided a blueprint for the State Government to work closely with local indus...
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Perth Bus Fleet Contract
Premier Richard Court has announced letting a tender to the Mercedes-Benz Company, for the initial batch of 133 replacement vehicles for Perth''s 850 buses.
The 133 buses are scheduled for delivery by the end of 1999.
Over the next twelve years the entire Perth bus fleet will be replaced.
Mercede...
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Infill Sewerage Program
Under the Infill Sewerage Program a further 33,500 WA homes will be given access to reticulated sewerage by mid 2001.
The work will be undertaken in 153 projects, worth a total of $263 million, from July 1998.
The new three-year works program will feature increased use of advanced construction tec...
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Arthur-Lyons River Magnesium Metal Project, Tas
Crest Resources has acquired an option to purchase the Arthur-Lyons River magnesium oxide deposits, 53 kilometres south-west of Burnie in north-west Tasmania.
The two deposits have an indicated resource of 29 million tonnes at 42.8% magnesium oxide with low levels of silica and other impurities.
T...
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George Fisher Zinc-Lead-Silver Mine, Qld
MIM Holdings announced it would proceed with development of its George Fisher zinc-lead-silver deposit, 22 kilometres north of Mount Isa and two kilometres north of the Hilton mine.
The feasibility study plan provides for mining two of George Fisher''s 11 orebodies, with ore reserves of 24 million ...
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Macraes Gold Project, NZ
Macraes Mining Company announced its commitment to further development of the Macraes gold project in Otago, by undertaking a two-stage development.
Macraes Managing Director Patrick O''Connor said stage one will encompass the immediate installation of pressure oxidation at the existing treatment p...
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Cosmos nickel project
Feasibility StudyJubilee Gold Mines’ March 1998 Quarterly Report said the massive Cosmos nickel sulphide project feasibility study is progressing on schedule with an anticipated completion date of the end of June 1998.Metallurgical testwork was essentially completed during the quarter along with the...
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