Iron ore JV worth US$9 billion in sales contracts with China
BHP Billiton has announced its intention to enter into the Wheelarra joint venture with four of China’s leading steel mills. The joint venture will secure the sale to the mills of approximately 12 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) of iron ore.The joint venture will be BHP Billiton’s largest ever comme...
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Roche Mining awarded contracts worth more than $110 million
Downer EDI Limited has announced that its mining division, Roche Mining, has been awarded two mining contracts in underground and open-cut mining valued at over $110 million. In Queensland, Roche Mining has commenced a contract at the Cracow Gold Mine, a new underground mine being developed by a joi...
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Consolidated to increase manganese production
Consolidated Minerals Limited is set to further increase its exposure to the rapidly growing Chinese raw materials market by recently announcing plans to expand its manganese operations in WA.Consolidated said it had commenced a feasibility study to increase production from its Woodie Woodie Mangane...
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Claude Hills Project, SA
Acclaim Exploration NL has announced that the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Council Executive have agreed to a commencement date for on-ground exploration at Claude Hills on exploration licence 2777, in the far north-west of South Australia. The company is now seeking tenders for this w...
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Rameilus to drill Hilditch WA nickel project
Ramelius Resources Limited has announced that it has contracted Kalgoorlie-based drilling contractors, Mondrill Pty Ltd to commence a 2,000 m rotary air blast (RAB) drill program over its Hilditch nickel project in the Spargoville region of WA’s Eastern Goldfields. The company’s preliminary drilling...
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Updated resource statement
Kimberly Diamond Company NL (Kimberley) has announced an updated resource inventory which includes all the results of bulk sampling using the 2.5 m diameter Bauer drill in 2003.Pipe 4, Satellite 4 and Pipe 9, now contain 90.42 million tones containing 5.61 million carats at an average grade of 6.2 c...
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Gold production on target
The first stage of the Warrior Gold Mine development at Charters Towers is complete. This stage consisted of the preparation of the Washington Open Pit in readiness for the installation of the Warrior Decline portal. Tennent, Isokangas Pty Limited, consulting mining engineers, have been awarded the ...
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Drilling to commence at Jubilee and Wattle Dam
Nickel sulphide company Pioneer Nickel Limited has announced that a 25-hole reverse circulation (RC) drilling campaign will commence at its Acra-Jubilee Project, located 80 km east of Kalgoorlie, and its Wattle Dam Project, located 20 km south-west of Kambalda, in mid-March.Pioneer has now completed...
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Jubilee discovers high-grade nickel sulphides at Emu Lake
Jubilee Mines NL has announced that exploration drilling at its 60 per cent-owned Emu Lake Project near Kalgoorlie in WA has intersected high-grade nickel sulphide mineralisation. The Emu Lake Project is a joint venture between Jubilee, Image Resources NL (30 per cent) and Skryne Hill Pty Ltd (10 pe...
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Aztec to seek admission to London AIM market
Aztec Resources Limited has announced the undertaking of a compliance listing on the London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM), with shares scheduled to commence trading before 31 March 2004. To achieve this listing, the company has appointed Grant Thornton, London as its Nomad and...
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Design go-ahead for offshore Victorian gas field
Front-end engineering work to develop the estimated $200 million Casino gas field offshore western Victoria, has been given approval by Santos Limited and its joint venture partners in the acreage, AWE and Mitsui.Santos, as Operator of the Casino field, announced on behalf of the VIC/P44 joint ventu...
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Santos farm-out for Corowa
Santos Limited announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, Santos Offshore Pty Ltd, has agreed to farm-out 25 per cent of its equity in the Exploration Permit WA- 264-P to Beach Petroleum Limited.The Permit is located in offshore WA and contains the Corowa-1 oil discovery.Under the agreement, the Sa...
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Woodside to sell Bass Strait assets
Woodside Energy Ltd. has agreed to sell its Bass Strait exploration interests to Sydney-based oil and gas producer Anzon Energy Australia Limited for $65 million.Under agreements with Anzon, Woodside will sell its 30 per cent interest in VIC/RL2 containing the Kipper gas field and its 100 per cent i...
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First production from Adatepe Field, Turkey
Adatepe-1 was recently put on early production. Production is through a 6 km pipeline which has been tied into the Amity operated Gocerler gas plant. The Adatepe-1 well is located in Area “A” of the Thrace joint venture, which is owned 50 per cent by Amity and 50 per cent by TPAO. Area “A” is operat...
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Integrated Waste Processing and Service Facility
Tox Free Solutions Limited advises that the company has executed a lease with the WA Government for an 8 ha Integrated Waste Processing and Service Facility site in Karratha, WA. The negotiations for this land have been ongoing for three years and the signing of the lease now allows Tox Free Solutio...
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Premier signals beginning of Southern Suburbs Railway work
Work on the $1.275 billion Southern Suburbs Railway has officially commenced. At a special ceremony near Perth’s Narrows Bridge recently, Premier Geoff Gallop gave the all clear for exploratory drilling to begin along the proposed train route under Perth’s CBD.The preliminary drilling and technical ...
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New trading identity for ISO
The Industrial Supplies Office of Western Australia has been re-named the Industry Capability Network Western Australia (ICNWA) to reflect the organisation’s true mission of working on behalf of capable Australian suppliers. Under its new name ICNWA will continue to bring benefits to the state by ma...
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REPS Industry Events Calendar: New Events
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 - 2004 APPEA Conference & ExhibitionDate - 28-31 March 2004 Venue - The National Convention Centre, CanberraOrganisers - APPEA Tel - (02) 6267...
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