Mid West Iron and Steel Project
In March, An Feng Kingstream Steel (AFK) announced a consortium led by Mannesmann had been selected to supply plant and equipment, construct and fund its 2.4 million tonne per annum steel slab project.
Due to the parties'' failure to reach agreement on fundamental parameters of the proposed EPCM co...
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Mondarra Natural Gas Storage Project
Pilot testing of the proposal to develop the depleted Mondarra gas field as a natural gas storage facility was carried out in late 1996.
Mondarra owner CMS Gas Transmission envisaged the facility would offer customers injection and withdrawal services at interconnections with both the Dampier to Bu...
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Scott Reef/Brecknock gas fields
The offshore Scott Reef and Brecknock gas fields are located approximately 350 kilometres north-north-west of Broome in the Browse Basin.
Water depths range from very shallow to 1,000 metres over Brecknock.
The combined volumes of gas in the two fields are estimated to be around 30 Tcf.
The WA De...
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Woollybutt oil field
Tap Oil, a 10 per cent shareholder in the Woollybutt oil field, says it has received a report from operator Hardy Petroleum, containing an estimate of the indicative technically recoverable reserves calculated for Woollybutt.
The reserve estimate is preliminary and further changes are envisaged as ...
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Ravensthorpe nickel project
Comet Resources said it had renegotiated an improved financing arrangement for its Ravensthorpe lateritic nickel project.
The company has resolved to proceed with the issue of convertible notes to NM Rothschild and Sons (Australia).
Rothschild will also act as Corporate Adviser to the company to d...
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Mt McClure gold mine
Australian Resources announced that recent detailed interpretation and evaluation of higher grade mineralisation has highlighted the potential for an economic underground deposit below the Cockburn pit at its Mt McClure gold mine.
Modelling of the mineralisation using a two g/t gold cut-off has gen...
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Paraburdoo gold project
Lynas Gold has released an interim resource/reserve estimate of the Mt Olympus gold deposit following the completion of a recent infill and extension drilling program.
A total reserve of 2.15 million tonnes grading 3.3g/t, resulting in a total of 200,000 recoverable ounces of gold has been calcul...
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Munni Munni silver project (Elizabeth Hill deposit)
Legend Mining said experimentation relating to the recovery of silver from bulk samples taken from the Elizabeth Hill deposit continued during the March quarter.
Recovery rates have improved to approximately 90 per cent of the silver contained.
Research is continuing in the bulk testing laboratori...
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Argyle Diamond Mine
Ashton Mining said, based on studies to date, a three million tonnes per annum underground mine appears to be the probable outcome for future development at its 40.1 per cent owned Argyle diamond mine.
The underground operation would employ sub level caving and process up to three million tonnes pe...
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Ellenbrook water and wastewater collection system
The State Government has allocated $17 million to the construction of a new water supply and wastewater collection system in Ellenbrook, to commence this year.
Premier Richard Court said the water supply project would secure a reliable supply of water for the area from next summer and will involve ...
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Boyanup to Busselton gas pipeline
Natural gas has begun flowing to Busselton following the construction of a 22-kilometre stretch of pipeline.
Gas to Busselton is the second stage of $8.6 million Boyanup to Busselton gas pipeline project.
As the project=s first stage, a 23-kilometre high-pressure pipeline delivering natural gas fr...
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Geraldton airport upgrade
Shire of Greenough Chief Executive Officer Bill Perry said detailed engineering design work had been completed for the planned upgrade of the Geraldton airport runway to a PCN rating of 22.
The $2.2 million upgrade will involve the laying of 50 millimetres of asphalt on the runway.
Following its c...
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Industrial estates in Western Australia
The State Government has committed more than $15 million to further develop strategic industrial estates in Western Australia over the next 12 months.
The funding will improve key industrial sites catering for downstream processing of mineral and energy resources and the expansion of general and sp...
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South-West region - industrial land & transport studies
A series of reports assessing the options for meeting the South-West region''s industrial land and transport needs over the next 30 years have been released for public comment.
Planning Minister Graham Kierath said the studies are probably the most far-reaching analysis to date on how infrastructur...
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Collingwood tin project, Qld
The Collingwood tin project, 130 kilometres north of Cairns, has a geological resource of four million tonnes grading 0.7 per cent tin.
It is estimated the central, higher-grade orebody contains a probable ore reserve of 750,000 tonnes at 1.69 per cent tin.
Rhodes Mining recently acquired an optio...
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AIP WA Meeting
The Australian Institute of Petroleum, WA Branch, is holding a luncheon meeting on Thursday 25 June 1998.
The guest speaker will be Dr Jim Limerick from Department of Resources Development who will present an update on the Pilbara Petrochemical Project.
The State Government expects to announce in ...
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