New contract for John Brookes gas field (18 Aug 04)
Santos Limited has announced the signing of a sales gas contract with Newcrest Mining Limited.
Under the contract Santos (45 per cent) and Apache (55 per cent and operator) will supply Newcrest with 120 petajoules (PJ) of gas over 15 years from the John Brookes field. This is the first major gas co...
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Work starts on Victoria's biggest gold project (18 Aug 04)
Following its $115 million capital rising, Bendigo Mining Limited has wasted no time getting what is one of Australia's biggest gold projects underway.
Bendigo has begun calling for applicants to help build the New Bendigo Gold Project (New Bendigo).
Five groups have already registered expression...
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First ever JORC compliant resource for the Aldiss gold project (18 Aug 04)
WA gold group, ReLODE Limited, is moving closer to development of a stand-alone mining operation at the company's Aldiss Gold Project, some 130 km east of Kalgoorlie in WA's Eastern Goldfields region, with the release of the first-ever JORC Code compliant resource for the project.
ReLODE recently c...
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Curragh North mine development brought forward (18 Aug 04)
Production from the Curragh North coal resource, centred 20 km north of the existing Wesfarmers-owned Curragh Mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin, is expected to begin ahead of schedule in the first quarter of the 2005 calendar year.
Managing director of Wesfarmers Energy, David Robb, said the start-...
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New mine fleet for Murrin Murrin (18 Aug 04)
Minara Resources has announced the award of contracts totaling $144 million to Westrac Equipment Pty Ltd and Hitachi Construction Machinery Pty Ltd for the supply and maintenance of a new mining fleet at Murrin Murrin.
The existing mine fleet is scheduled to be retired next year, and the new fleet ...
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Major iron ore project (18 Aug 04)
OneSteel Limited has announced that the company has successfully completed the feasibility study into its magnetite ore resource in the South Middleback Ranges in South Australia, and the Board had approved the commencement of Project Magnet.
The project will generate in excess of $1 billion in rev...
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Direct ship iron ore microplaty haematite (18 Aug 04)
Fortescue Metals Group Ltd has announced that CSIRO scientists together with the company's exploration team have identified significant tonnages of direct ship ore at its Christmas Creek tenements in the Pilbara region of WA.
The ore is deposited over a wide area and is close to the surface provid...
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Nickel and PGEs intersected at Collurabbie, WA (18 Aug 04)
The Falcon Minerals Ltd and WMC Resources Ltd joint venture has received assay results from some of the initial round of RC and diamond drilling along the Olympia Zone as part of the first deep drilling program at Collurabbie which is located approximately 160 km east north-east of the Mt Keith nick...
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Upgrades to Sherlock Bay nickel project resources (18 Aug 04)
Sherlock Bay Nickel Corporation Limited (SBNC) has announced a major upgrade to its nickel resource base, at its Sherlock Bay nickel project located in WA's North West. This upgrade is the result of a Reverse Circulation and Diamond drilling program that has been carried out by SBNC since it restart...
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EM results from new high grade nickel discovery (18 Aug 04)
Western Areas has announced encouraging results from a down-hole electromagnetic (EM) survey conducted on the first drill hole (FFD 136 W2/W2) to test the T4 target at Flying Fox. Two strong conductors have been interpreted above and around the area of the drill hole. FFD 136 W2/W2 intersected a wid...
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Lanfranchi / Tramways resource upgrade (18 Aug 04)
As previously announced, Sally Malay Mining Limited has entered into a conditional agreement with WMC Resources Limited to acquire the Lanfranchi Mine and the associated Tramways Tenements for a total consideration of $26 million. These assets will be purchased via an unincorporated joint venture, t...
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Amphibious ship risk reduction and design study called (18 Aug 04)
French shipbuilding group Armaris and Spanish shipbuilding group IZAR will be asked to participate in a funded risk reduction and design study for the Navy's two new amphibious vessels.
Defence Minister Robert Hill said the study was a further step towards the selection of a new amphibious s...
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Approval of Perth airport draft master plan (18 Aug 04)
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Transport and Regional Services, John Anderson has approved the draft Master Plan for Perth Airport.
The Commonwealth signed a lease with Westralia Airports Limited (WAC) on 2 July 1997 for the Perth Airport site. The lease is for a term of 50 years, with ...
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The inaugural InfrastructureWA Conference (18 Aug 04)
The InfrastructureWA Conference is aimed at highlighting and addressing latest issues and innovations facing the building and construction, architectural, engineering and facility management industries.
Some of the key topics are:
pressure points for WA infrastructure in the next 20 years
Pert...
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Minister launches Northern Strategic Industry Study in Pilbara (18 Aug 04)
State Development Minister Clive Brown has launched the Northern Strategic Industry Areas (SIA) Environmental, Social and Economic (ESE).
The study was commissioned by the Gallop Government in 2002 to identify economic, social and environmental factors associated with developing a range of potentia...
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Free news delivery service tailored to your interests (18 Aug 04)
If you'd prefer to receive smaller bursts of information, relevant to your particular business or industry, CCI's news customisation service could be the answer.
The new service is available free of charge to all CCI members and allows you to login via our website and select the topics for which yo...
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REPS Industry Events Calendar: New Events (18 Aug 04)
The following events has been added to the REPS Industry Events Calendar that can be downloaded in the e-mail / on-line version of each REPS newsletter.
Event: The Engineering Week LunchDate: 3 September 2004 Venue: Perth Convention Exhibition CentreOrganisers: Engineers Aus...
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