Register interest for Granny Smith Project
Development for the $150 million Wallaby deposit, near Laverton, was about 20 per cent complete at the time of writing.
Wallaby is a joint venture project of the Granny Smith Joint Venture partners (GSJV), Delta Gold (40 per cent) and Placer Dome.
The process plant at Granny Smith, Australia’s sec...
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WMC acquires Yakabindie
WMC Resources Ltd has added the Yakabindie Nickel Project to its suite of nickel assets in Western Australia.
Yakabindie could potentially contribute 292 million tonnes at 0.52 per cent nickel to WMC’s existing nickel resources.
The project, acquired from Rio Tinto, adjoins the company’s North Six...
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Proposal for new ammonia plant
The Harriet Joint Venture has entered into an exclusive Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Oswal Projects Ltd (Oswal) to supply gas for its proposed ammonia plant in the Pilbara.
The MOU is for daily supply of 66 terrajoules to the project for 25 years from 2004.
While no formal announcement o...
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Further LOI for Woodside
A further Letter of Intent was signed between the North West Shelf LNG Sellers and a new long-term customer.
Tohoku Electric Co Ltd has agreed to buy 0.4 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of LNG.
The agreement covers LNG supply for a long-term arrangement from April 2005.
Tohoku Electric is a new l...
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Further exploration of Binduli
Croesus Mining has signed a $10 million joint venture agreement in which Placer Dome Asia Pacific will further explore Croesus’s Binduli project site.
Under the terms of the agreement, Placer may earn up to a 75 per cent interest in the project by spending $10 million on exploration and feasibili...
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JV awarded Batchelor study contract
Mt Grace Resources NL recently announced that the contract for stage 1 of the definitive feasibility study for the Batchelor Magnesium Project had been given to a joint venture between Bateman Engineering Pty Ltd and Multiplex Constructions Pty Ltd.
The Bateman Multiplex JV(BMJV) will begin work on...
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Syerston Nickel Project, NSW
Black Range Minerals Ltd’s Syerston Nickel Project has taken further steps towards development.
The Syerston Project, 400 kilometres west of Sydney in New South Wales, is near the mining centre of Parkes.
The Syerston mineralisation is a limonitic nickel-cobalt laterite with a resource of 100 mil...
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Hunter Specialty Steel Mill progresses
The Hunter Specialty Steel Mill Project (HSSM) was near financial closure during the December quarter.
Corus Consulting has prepared a detailed Enquiry Document for the plant equipment suppliers, and refined a detailed Operational Model.
The project site will be moved from Steel River in Newcastle...
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Chirano Gold Project, Ghana
Geological consultants Resource Service Group (RSG) completed a new resource and reserve estimate for Red Back Mining NL’s Chirano Gold Project in Ghana.
Based on this pit optimisation, the pre-feasibility study will be completed in February following receipt of second hand plant costs.
The metal...
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Phulbari coal deposit, Bangladesh
Asia Energy Corporation Pty Limited (AEC), which is 65 per cent owned by Deepgreen Minerals Corporation Limited, is proceeding with a bankable feasibility study for the Phulbari coal deposit, in northwest Bangladesh.
Phulbari has an estimated resource of 387 million tonnes of high quality clean ste...
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AusRutile Joint Venture project
The Board of Indian Rare Earths Limited has given formal approval to the entry of Ticor Limited to the AusRutile Joint Venture.
The Boards of Austpac and Ticor have also approved the agreement.
Ticor is now a 37 per cent shareholder in AusRutile India, with Austpac and IRE holding 37 per cent an...
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BIS Shrapnel’s outlook for industry
The following information is an extract from the new report: Mining & Heavy Industry Construction in Australia, 2000 to 2015, produced by BIS Shrapnel.
CONSTRUCTION
Construction is now in a sharp downturn, following the extraordinary boom of the late 1990s.
Investment in the Australian mining and...
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Australasian Oil and Gas Conference
Included with this edition of the posted REPS is a free industry pass to the Australasian Oil and Gas Conference 2001 in Perth from 21 to 23 March at the Hyatt Regency Perth Hotel.
The conference will help participants understand, and gain full advantage, of new generation of offshore technologies ...
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