Griffin Energy secures spot at Boddington (15 Aug 2006)
Griffin Energy will supply 150MW of power for the $1.8 billion Boddington Gold Mine project (BGM) under a long-term power purchase agreement.Joint venture owners of the BGM, Newmont Mining Corporation and AngloGold Ashanti finalised the agreement with Griffin Energy following a competitive tender pr...
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ASC to build facility at AMC (15 Aug 2006)
ASC Pty Ltd is planning to construct a $23 million maintenance facility at the Australian Marine Complex (AMC) at Henderson, which will provide facilities for maintenance and repair of the Royal Australian Navy’s Collins Class submarines, under a 25-year contract.ASC is still in negotiation with the...
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Stage 1 of Jack Hills ready to go (15 Aug 2006)
Mining at the Jack Hills iron ore project in WA’s Mid West should commence in September 2006, after Murchison Metals received approval for the $25 million debt facility for Stage 1.Formal credit approval has been received for the $25 million facility, comprising a two-year, $15 million project finan...
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Ferrowest to join search for Mid West iron ore (15 August 2006)
Ferrowest has listed on the Australian stock exchange with a $4 million public offering.Ferrowest is planning to mine, process, produce and export 500,000 tonnes per annum of magnetite iron from its Yalgoo project, located 233km east of Geraldton.The company is currently undertaking a scoping study ...
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Ramelius plan for mine expansion (15 Aug 2006)
Ramelius Resources has acquired the nickel rights to the Wattle Dam and Logan’s-Larkinville projects, located near Kambalda WA, from Pioneer Nickel.Under the agreement, Ramelius Resources will pay Pioneer Nickel $70,000 for 12-month options to buy 80 per cent of Pioneer’s nickel rights for some of W...
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Thundelarra strikes (15 Aug 2006)
Thundelarra Exploration has returned a series of significant nickel hits from the Copernicus joint venture in WA and plans to move the open-pit operation into production first quarter 2007.Drilling at Copernicus North returned hits of:• 1.54 per cent nickel from 14m• 2.46 per cent nickel f...
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Drilling program enhances potential of Mincor nickel mine (15 Aug 2006)
Mincor Resources has intersected significant nickel sulphide mineralisation at a new regional target approximately two kilometres north of its operating Redross Nickel Mine, near Kambalda, WA.Mincor Resources has completed three diamond drill holes along one section line through the anomaly. Two hol...
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Avoca upgrades resources estimate to a million ounces (15 Aug 2006)
Avoca Resources Limited is set to start production on the Higginsville Gold project in WA after increasing the resources estimate to more than one million ounces.The new resources estimate increased for Athena Lodes, representing an increase of 320 per cent over the May 2006 estimate and comprises 9...
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Agincourt announces gold discovery at Wiluna (15 Aug 2006)
Agincourt Resources Limited has discovered a significant gold intersection from underground exploration drilling at Wiluna.The intersection, which is estimated to be 9.0 metres wide at 10.42 grams per tonne (g/t) gold, is located midway between the major mineralised systems of Calais and Woodley at ...
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Production begins at Burbanks (15 Aug 2006)
After two months of underground development Barra Resources has commenced production from its Burbanks operation south-west of Coolgardie, WA and expects to pour first gold by the end of August 2006.The Company assayed the Tailor Shoot resource returning higher than expected grades including 8.5m at...
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Uranium found at Scimitar Project (15 Aug 2006)
Scimitar Resources has hit high-grade uranium at its Yanrey project in WA after the first drill campaign in 25 years was conducted to check mineralisation styles at the project.Aircore drilling returned hits of 1.2m at 511 parts per million (ppm) uranium oxide, 1.2m at 685ppm uranium oxide and 3.2m ...
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Uranium exploration for Queensland (15 Aug 2006)
Summit Resources and Newland Resources will spend $5 million on a uranium exploration program in the 12,000km2 Georgina Basin, in Northern Queensland.Newland Resources will commit $1 million to the exploration program on 16 Summit tenements and has the option to increase the expenditure to $5 millio...
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Flinders sparkle in SA (15 Aug 2006)
Thirty diamonds have been recovered from a bulk-sampling program undertaken by Flinders Diamonds Limited in a diamondiferous prospect in South Australia’s Flinders Ranges.The 30 diamonds were recovered after the 100 tonne Eurelia bulk sample was tested at Flinders Diamonds’ Dense Media Separation pr...
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REPS industry events (15 Aug 2006)
Click here for the latest information on upcoming industry events or go to: http://reps.cciwa.com > Industry Events CalendarPeak Oil: Production Forecasts and ImplicationsDate: 23 August 2006Venue: Parmelia Hilton Hotel, PerthTel: (08) 9228 2155Organiser: CEDAE-mail: Joan...
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