Pilbara Magnesium Project
Pilbara Magnesium Metal Associates, a joint venture between HCC Pty Ltd (a private Perth-based company) and Multiplex Constructions, is proposing to build a magnesium plant using bitterns as a feedstock.
Bitterns are a waste product from solar salt production and are usually pumped into the ocean ...
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Black Swan Nickel Mine
Outokumpu said it had decided to proceed with mining the Cygnet orebody at its wholly owned Black Swan nickel mine, 50 kilometres north-east of Kalgoorlie.
Production at Cygnet is scheduled to start in February 2000, and the present life of the Black Swan mine is expected to extend until the first ...
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Rough Range Oilfield
Empire Oil and Gas, through its wholly owned subsidiary Rough Range Pty Ltd, has a 100 per cent interest in the Rough Range oilfield near Exmouth in the onshore Carnarvon Basin.
WAPET discovered the oilfield in 1953, and the Rough Range 1A well flowed oil at a rate of up to 940 barrels per day on f...
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Infrastructure for Albany/Albany Woodchip Mill Project
Resources Development Minister Colin Barnett said he had reached in-principle agreement with Oji Paper and Itochu Corporation to build a $20-million woodchip mill using plantation timber at Down Road, north of Albany, subject to final feasibility studies and environmental and planning requirements.
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Integrated Wood Processing Plant
Western Power is driving a project that could see the construction of an integrated wood processing plant using plantation timber (mallee) to produce electricity, eucalyptus oil and activated carbon.
Western Power Senior Project Coordinator Don Harrison said a feasibility study for the plant was cu...
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Kalgoorlie Wastewater Treatment Plant
The City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder ("the City") is considering options for the on-sale of sewage effluent for commercial use, in conjunction with improving the current effluent treatment system, by building an intensive wastewater treatment plant and associated storage facilities and infrastructure.
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Albany Wind Farm Project
Western Power Project Leader Dr Paul Ebert said that while the feasibility study for the Albany wind farm had not been completed, in-principle board approval had been given for tenders to be called for the project’s construction.
Dr Ebert said 75 expressions of interest were received earlier this y...
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Opportunities for New Generating Plant
Western Power’s Electricity Outlook 1999/2000 to 2008/09 publication has predicted growth in electricity demand, given different cases.
For the Base Case, that is four per cent average sentout energy and 3.8 per cent average sentout peak demand, approximately 120 megawatts (MW) of new plant will be...
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Methanol Plant Concept, WA/NT
US company and global methanol production and marketing leader Methanex Corporation operates two methanol plants in New Zealand, from which it supplies about 50 per cent of all merchant methanol sold in the Asia-Pacific region.
Because of long-term gas supply uncertainties in New Zealand, the compa...
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Bayu-Undan Gas/Condensate Gas Fields, NT
Development of the Bayu-Undan project has progressed a step forward with the announcement that all joint venture participants have signed the Bayu-Undan Unitisation Agreement.
Petroz Managing Director Rod Brown said with the final development for the Bayu-Undan liquids project soon to be submitted ...
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Millmerran Power Station Project, Qld
Queensland Government approval has been given for a $1.4 billion private power station at Millmerran, 80 kilometres south-west of Toowoomba on the Darling Downs.
The project will involve the development of a 3.6 million tonnes per annum coal mine (Commodore), and an 840-megawatt (MW) power station ...
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Coal Seam Methane Project, Qld
Transfield Energy and Tri-Star Petroleum is planning the development of the Comet Ridge coal seam methane gas field, which it considers to contain 4PJ/km2 in an area 200 kilometres long and 40 kilometres wide. Assuming a 50 per cent recovery rate, up to 16,000 PJ of natural gas could be recovered.
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Kempfield Silver Project, NSW
Golden Cross Resources (GCR) said positive results from the fourth drilling program at its Kempfield silver project near Blayney had been recorded.
The project hosts significant silver, lead, zinc and barite resources along a three-kilometre strike length.
Diamond drilling to confirm and infill p...
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Mathinna Gold Project, Tas
Defiance Mining released results from the latest round of drilling at its Mathinna gold project in north-east Tasmania, which the company said helped to confirm its potential to host substantial gold resources.
The company said visible gold was found in 11 of 14 holes drilled at Mathinna.
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Synthetic Rutile Processing Technology
Gawler Gold and Mineral Exploration has said that, in association with a privately owned American research company, it had successfully developed a hydrometallurgical process for the production of synthetic rutile.
The process is expected to provide significant savings in respect of both initial ca...
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WA Resource Development Services Directory
Despite a downturn in the resources sector, the 2000 edition of our Western Australian Resource Development Services Directory continues to receive strong interest from advertisers, with many positions in the front section of the publication already booked.
The sixteenth edition of this directory w...
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