Xstrata gets McAuthur River expansion approval (26 Oct 2006)
Xstrata has been given the green light for the $110 million underground expansion of the McArthur River zinc and lead mine, allowing it to operate for an additional 25 years.The company will divert the McArthur River by 5.5km as part of the expansion from underground to open cut mining.The expansion...
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Work to begin on Wimmera Mallee Pipeline (26 Oct 2006)
Work on the first stage of the Wimmera Mallee water pipeline project is about to commence and will link water storages in the Grampians with the west of Victoria.The Wimmera Mallee Pipeline, touted as Australia’s biggest water infrastructure project, involves the construction of over 8,000km of reti...
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BassGas finally ready to play (26 Oct 2006)
The $750 million BassGas facility, located in South Gippsland, VIC has been unveiled two years after the project began.The BassGas project consists of an unmanned offshore platform, 180km pipeline and processing plant and aims to deliver gas, condensate and LPG to the VIC market.The plant will proce...
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North West Shelf Venture signs LNG deal (26 Oct 2006)
The North West Shelf Venture (NWSV) has signed a deal with Chubu Electric of Japan for the supply of liquefied natural gas.In the seven-year deal starting in April 2009, NWSV will supply almost 500,000 tonnes of liquid natural gas (LNG) a year to Chubu Electric.Chubu Electric, Japan’s third largest ...
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“An Introduction to the Petroleum Industry” (26 Oct 2006)
The Petroleum Club of WA, in conjunction with APPEA, is conducting a one day seminar designed for those who wish to gain a broad understanding of the petroleum industry at the introductory level.“An Introduction to the Petroleum Industry” will be held at the Parmelia Hilton Hotel, Perth on the 5 Dec...
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MIT to conduct design and manufacturing study for SKA equipment (26 Oct 2006)
MIT Haystack Observatory (MIT) is undertaking a design and manufacture study on the RF and antenna systems, equipment that will be used on the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).The SKA is a giant next generation radio telescope that will be 50 times more sensitive than the most powerful radio telescoped ...
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Exploration success at Oxiana’s Golden Grove Operation (26 Oct 2006)
Exploration drilling has intersected a thick interval of massive sulphide hosted copper-zinc-gold-silver mineralisation at Oxiana’s Golden Grove operation in WA.A down hole intercept has returned the results:• 51m at 6.1 per cent copper, 1.8 per cent zinc, 1.1 grams per tonne gold and 52 grams ...
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Goldstar commences Walhalla work (26 Oct 2006)
Underground mining has commenced at Goldstar Resources' Walhalla Gold Project in the East Gippsland region, VIC.The first mining cuts have been taken for stripping to establish mining access to the bulk sampling location.Once stripped, Goldstar will begin to access six of the nine high-grade quartz ...
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Equigold ups gold reserves (26 Oct 06)
Equigold has increased its gold reserve base at the Mount Rawdon gold mine in QLD.The increases were a result of the re-optimisation of the pit designs, which were used to capture more resources below previous pit shells.Mount Rawdon now contains a re-calculated 38.4 million tonnes grading at one gr...
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Blina discovers more channels on Terrace 5 (26 Oct 2006)
Blina Diamonds has discovered a significant extension to the main Terrace 5 channel as well as 15 new tributaries following the completion of a large-diameter drilling program.Due to the increased volume of samples, the company has moved to continuous 24-hour processing operations at its Exploration...
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Studies begin into Jump-up Dam (26 Oct 2006)
Heron Resources has commenced a staged scoping and feasibility study into its Jump-up Dam Project, located 150km northeast of Kalgoorlie-Boulder in WA.The study will look at economic production of nickel via development of a heap leaching operation.Construction of the initial trial leaching circuit ...
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ICT and the resources sector: Working together to capitalise on the boom (26 Oct 2006)
The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), the peak industry body for ICT companies in Australia, is hosting the inaugural Resources Sector ICT Symposium in Perth.The Symposium will provide a forum for resource sector specialists to brief the ICT industry on ICT initiatives and procurem...
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Late entries delaying 2007 REPS Directory production (26 Oct 2006)
number of subscribers have not submitted their company profile to appear in the 2007 Western Australian Resource Services Development Directory (REPS Directory).This Directory details the services, expertise and contact details of more than 700 companies involved in WA’s resource and energy se...
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Industry Events (26 Oct 2006)
Click here for the latest information on upcoming industry events or go to: http://reps.cciwa.com > Industry Events CalendarThe Mining 2006 Resources ConventionDate: 1-3 November 2006Venue: Hilton Hotel, BrisbaneOrganiser: Vertical EventsTel: (08) 9388 2222E-mail: info@ve...
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