Preferred site for LNG Plant (7 Sept 04)
BHP Billiton has announced that it has selected a preferred site for a proposed Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Plant in the Pilbara region of WA.
A site, located approximately 4.5 km south-west of Onslow, was chosen after an extensive site selection study examined a number of locations in the Pilbara ...
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Alinta wind farm go-ahead (7 Sept 04)
Alinta has announced the unconditional go-ahead for WA’s largest wind farm. The unconditional approval means developer Renewable Power Ventures (RPV) will shortly be able to start construction of the 90 MW $200 million wind farm.
The Alinta wind farm, 35 km south-east of Geraldton, will be of simil...
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Consortium named as preferred bidder for pipeline (7 Sept 04)
Receivers and Managers of the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline have announced that a consortium comprising Diversified Utility and Energy Trusts (DUET), Alinta Limited and Alcoa of Australia Limited had been named as the preferred bidder for the purchase of 100 per cent of the pipeline.
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Energy in Western Australia Conference 2004 (7 Sept 04)
The Office of Energy and the Australian Institute of Energy are hosting the sixth Energy in Western Australia Conference, focusing on the significant change facing the energy sector and the vision for the future.
This is the premier conference on energy in WA with Minister for Energy, Eric Ripper,...
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Austal bids for amphibious ships (7 Sept 04)
Austal Limited has announced that it has teamed with Raytheon Australia to bid for the upcoming Australian government tender to build two amphibious ships, which is due to be issued in early 2005.
The amphibious vessel project has an indicative cost of $1.5 to $2 billion. The preferred tenderer is...
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BHP Billiton to increase coal production (7 Sept 04)
BHP Billiton has announced its intention to increase metallurgical coal production capacity to around 100 million tonnes per annum (100 per cent basis) by 2010.
The increase in capacity will be achieved through high value incremental expansions of the BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) and BHP ...
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BHP and JFE announce joint venture (7 Sept 04)
BHP Billiton has announced its intention to form a joint venture with Japan’s JFE Steel Corporation, a recently merged entity of Kawasaki Steel Corporation and NKK. The joint venture will be BHP Billiton’s first iron ore joint venture with a Japanese steelmaker and will underpin sales of approximate...
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Feasibility study begins on Koolyanobbing expansion (7 Sept 04)
A feasibility study is currently underway to determine the viability of expanding the existing operation at Koolyanobbing to as high as eight million tonnes.
Portman Limited declared the feasibility study for upgrading its Koolyanobbing iron ore operations after the company reported a June half pr...
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Midwest signs iron ore contract (7 Sep 04)
Midwest Corporation has signed a sales contract with Hong Kong-based Prosperity Minerals Limited to purchase 1.1 Mt of the company’s iron ore fines stockpile with an option to purchase the balance of the stockpile (500,000 tonnes).
The agreement will result in iron ore fines, currently stockpiled a...
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Extra $6.1 million to develop Ravensthorpe Nickel Project (7 Sept 04)
The WA State Government will provide an extra $6.1 million to develop infrastructure necessary to support a locally based workforce for BHP Billiton’s $1.4 billion Ravensthorpe Nickel Project.
The funding was made necessary by the Australian government’s decision not to match the State Government’s...
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Opportunities for suppliers at all levels of the supply chain (7 Sept 04)
One of the many features of the ICNWA website is the Project Opportunities section, which assists projects to maximise their use of Australian manufacturers and service providers by enabling suppliers to register their interest in specific procurement packages.
Current opportunities for suppliers t...
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Redross Nickel Mine begins production
Nickel sulphide producer Mincor Resources NL has announced the commencement of ore production from its Redross Nickel Mine, Mincor’s third operating nickel mine in Kambalda, WA.
Seven hundred tonnes of ore were produced at Redross during August at an estimated grade of 2.5 per cent nickel. The Redr...
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Development of Rose Dam gold project (7 Sept 04)
Yilgarn Mining Ltd has announced that it has entered into a Heads of Agreement with Placer Dome Asia Pacific Ltd (PDAP) for the development of Yilgarn’s Rose Dam gold deposit, located within its Credo Project tenements 35 km north-west of Kalgoorlie.
Under the Heads of Agreement, Yilgarn and Place...
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Gold Resource upgrade for Egerton project (7 Sept 04)
NGM Resources Limited has announced that a new ore resource estimate has been completed at the Egerton Gold Project 235 km north-west of Meekatharra, WA. The new resource for the Hibernian deposit is 99,590 tonnes at 6.70 g/t for 21,490 contained ounces of gold.
The new resource estimate represents...
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Feasibility begins at Mt Ida (7 Sept 04)
A mining feasibility study to include the Meteor and Whinnen resources into the current Baldock mining plan has commenced.
This follows an announcement by International Goldfields Ltd of an upgraded Mineral Resource estimate for its 100 per cent owned Mt Ida Gold project, located 100 km west of Leo...
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Sons of Gwalia in administration (7 Sept 04)
Sons of Gwalia has gone into administration after a review of operations identified a serious deterioration in the status of the gold reserves and resources which raised concerns about the company’s ability to meet its hedge book commitments.
The company said that the decision to go into voluntary...
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Mining Act amendments introduced in WA (7 Sept 04)
State Development Minister Clive Brown introduced the Mining Amendment Bill 2004 into State Parliament, which proposes the first major overhaul of laws governing mining in WA in more than 25 years.
The Bill would result in mining leases only being issued when mining was proposed, rather than for ex...
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Clough family sells shares (7 Sept 04)
WA-based public company Clough plans to enter into alliance with South African group Murray & Roberts. Murray & Roberts will take a significant shareholding in Clough Limited through:
the placement by Clough Limited of 60 million shares at 68 cents per share to raise $40.8 million
the sale...
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REPS Directory 2005 (7 Sept 2004)
REPS subscribers are advised that corporate entries in the 2005 edition of the WA Resource Development Services Directory are due now.
The REPS Directory is the most comprehensive service available in WA for services available to the development sector in our state, providing detailed information ...
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REPS Industry Events Calendar: New Events (7 Sept 04)
The following events have been added to the REPS Industry Events Calendar that can be downloaded in the e-mail / on-line version of each REPS newsletter.
Event: WA Chapter of Australian Pipeline Industry Association - Lunch Date: 15 September 2004 Venue: Parmelia Hilto...
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Free news delivery service tailored to your interests (7 Sept 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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