Ammonia-urea project
Plenty River Corporation’s (PRC) June 1998 Quarterly Report said the company continues to progress its proposed ammonia-urea project on the Burrup Peninsula.
Definitive cost estimate
Shedden Uhde’s Definitive Cost Estimate (DCE) has been temporarily suspended pending further investigation into int...
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Rose-1 gas discovery
Apache Corporation said its Rose-1 natural gas discovery has tested at a combined daily rate of 89 million cubic feet (Mcf) of gas and approximately 3,100 barrels of condensate.
The well is in the Harriet Production License TL-1 permit area, about three miles from Apache’s Gipsy-1 discovery, which ...
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Cawse nickel project - cobalt refinery
Centaur Mining and Exploration’s June 1998 Quarterly Report said discussions are underway with Union Miniere on a proposal to jointly study the development of a cobalt refinery at its soon-to-be-commisioned $265 million Cawse nickel-cobalt project.
The refinery project would use Union Miniere techn...
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Emily Ann nickel project
Capricorn Resources said stage two of the preliminary feasibility study on the Emily Ann nickel project continued in the June quarter, including data acquisition, mine optimisation and infrastructure investigations.
The study should be substantially completed during August.
The revised schedule to...
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Ravensthorpe nickel project
Comet Resources’ June 1998 Quarterly Report said the Ravensthorpe nickel project bankable feasibility study - undertaken by the joint venture between ICF Kaiser Engineers and HA Simons (KSJV) - is on schedule for completion in October 1998.
Study completion should result in a decision to proceed to...
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Maroochydore cooper project
Straits Resources’ Maroochydore copper project has a resource of 166.9 million tonnes grading 0.53 percent copper.
It is two kilometres south of the Telfer gold mine and 100 kilometres south-east of the company’s recently acquired Nifty copper operation.
Straits’ June 1998 Quarterly Report said th...
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Anketell copper gold project
Croesus Mining and Gindalbie Gold, joint venture partners of the Anketell project, have said the first diamond hole to test the Magnum anomaly intersected a significant new zone of copper and gold mineralisation, 100 kilometres north of the Telfer gold mine.
The hole was drilled to a depth of 475 m...
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Karonie gold project
Border Gold’s June 1998 Quarterly Report said the company has had positive results from the continuing assessment of processing options for the Harry’s Hill and French Kiss gold deposits at its Karonie gold project.
Consultant Barrier Mining Services has carried out conceptual process design and in...
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White Foil gold deposit
Mineral Commodities’ June 1998 Quarterly Report said Signet Engineering had largely completed the first stage of the feasibility study on the White Foil gold deposit.
The capital and operating costs from the pre-feasibility study are being reviewed and adjusted in regard to the mining costs provide...
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Mt McClure gold mine
Australian Resources’ June 1998 Quarterly Report said modelling of high grade intersections below the planned Cockburn pit design, using a two g/t gold cut-off, has outlined an inferred resource of 2.5 million tonnes at 8.2 g/t (650,000 ounces of contained gold) directly below the planned pit base.
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West Angelas iron ore project
North Ltd’s March 1998 Quarterly Report said the feasibility study on the West Angelas iron ore lump/fines project was completed and presented to the North Board and Robe participants.
A technical presentation was made to the Japanese steel mills in May and commercial discussions have begun to obta...
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Marlborough nickel project, Qld
Preston Resources, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Lagoon Hill Nickel NL, has awarded the contract for building and commissioning the 1.8 million tonne-per-annum Marlborough nickel project to Multiplex Constructions Pty Ltd.
It is a fixed lump sum price contract for the design, engineering, co...
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Tenacious oil field, NT
Cultus Petroleum’s June 1998 Quarterly Report said Tenacious West-1 ST/1 in the offshore Vulcan Sub-Basin, Timor Sea, has been cased and suspended as a future oil producer after encountering a 44-metre gross oil column in the Tithonian reservoir.
Cased hole wireline sampling recovered 19.5 litres o...
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Tritton copper project, NSW
Straits Resources’ June 1998 Quarterly Report said the feasibility study on its Tritton copper project, which Ausenco is undertaking, is scheduled for completion during the third quarter of 1998.
Under consideration is an underground mining operation producing 25,000 tonnes per annum of copper e...
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Reps - Issue 21
There was an error on the front page of the previous issue of the Reps newsletter.
The issue information should have read "4 August 1998 Issue 21", not "Issue 20".
Headers on the issue’s subsequent pages carried the correct issue number.
We apologise for any confusion this may have caused to read...
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