Windimurra Vanadium project
Precious Metals Australia (PMA) said construction commenced at the Windimurra site in November 1998 and is proceeding on schedule.
By the end of the December 1998 quarter, approximately $61 million of capital expenditure of the total estimated cost of $115 million had been committed.
Major contra...
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Mining Area C Iron Ore Development
BHP Iron Ore Chief Metallurgist Alan Bewsher said the company was targeting first production from its Mining Area C iron ore project by the end of its May 2001 financial year.
BHP Iron ore will proceed with a low infrastructure start-up option, which will involve the production of one million tonne...
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Mount Margaret Nickel Project
Anaconda Nickel said it continued optimisation and testwork on its Mount Margret nickel project, following successful completion of the scoping study in November 1998.
The company said the project generates strong returns at low nickel and cobalt prices and design optimisation is enhancing the proj...
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SRDC Manganese Sulphate Project
Sovereign Resources’ December 1998 Quarterly Report said BHP engineering (BHPE) had completed the first part of the bankable feasibility study for the SRDC manganese sulphate project.
This work, which comprised drilling, assaying and preparation of bulk samples, confirmed the company’s previous res...
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Dominion's Balla Balla Vanadium Project
Dominion Mining’s December 1998 Quarterly Report gave a revised resource estimated for its Balla Balla vanadium project of 40.8 million tonnes at 0.57 per cent vanadium pentoxide and 39.2 per cent iron.
The resource covers a strike length of 8.5 kilometres and was calculated to a vertical depth of ...
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Albany Woodchip Mill Project
Bunnings Forest Products’ Diamond Mill Manager Ian Telfer said the detailed feasibility study for the Albany woodchip mill project will be completed over the next month.
Results of the feasibility study will be presented to the Board for approval in April and a decision to commit to the project is ...
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Tritton Copper Project, NSW
Straits Resources said the feasibility study on its Tritton copper project was completed and tabled during the December 1998 quarter.
The study concluded that the development of the deposit would be economically and technically feasible.
The deposit contains a mineral resource estimate of 10.878 ...
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Lithgow Zirconia Project, NSW
Portman Mining’s December 1998 Quarterly Report said the feasibility study on its proposed 30,000 tonnes per annum Lithgow silicon project is proceeding on schedule.
Kaiser Engineers is undertaking the detailed engineering and cost study, while Dames and Moore and R W Corkery and Co have been appoi...
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Wide Bay Gas Project, Qld
Envestra Limited and Boral Energy said they had finalised an agreement that would see Envestra construct a 300-kilometre natural gas transmission pipeline from Gladstone to Bundaberg, Maryborough and Hervey Bay at a cost of $20 million.
Envestra will spend an additional $10 million installing distr...
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Ramu Nickel Project, PNG
The Ramu nickel deposit has a total resource of 143 million tonnes grading 1.01 per cent nickel and 0.11 per cent cobalt.
During the December 1998 quarter, Highlands Pacific completed a feasibility study on the Ramu project and presented it to the Papua New Guinea Government and its joint venture p...
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Tanzanian Gold Project, Tanzania
Spinifex Gold said it had more than doubled the global gold resource on its three Tanzanian projects in the Lake Victoria goldfields from 430,000 ounces to more than one million ounces.
The Bucksreef project contains a resource of 389,000 ounces of gold at 3.26 g/t, Kitongo has 479,000 ounces at 1....
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Laverton exploration project
Metex Resources' December 1998 Quarterly Report said the pre-feasibility study on the Chatterbox oxide deposits, which is being managed by joint venture partner Delta Gold, remains on target for completion during the March 1999 quarter.The company said positive results to date confirm the most likel...
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Ammonia-urea project
Plenty River Corporation (PRC) said major activities progressed during the December 1998 quarter for its proposed ammonia-urea project.Wharf FacilitiesWharf consultants, Port & Harbour Consultants, completed a concept study.To meet ammonia and urea load-out wharf needs, the study suggested the const...
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