Ammonia-urea plant
Plenty River Corporation (PRC) said it had entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Chambal Fertiliser and Chemicals of India to complete a bankable feasibility study in relation to PRC’s ammonia-urea project on the Burrup Peninsula.
Under the terms of the MoU, PRC and Chambal will enter in...
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Oxycholoride plant project
Hanwha Ceramics Australia Operations Director Viv Lawrie said his company was proceeding with work on its proposed $5 million, 5,000 tonnes per annum oxychloride plant at East Rockingham Industrial Park.
An engineering firm, whose identity remains confidential, has been appointed to carry out prel...
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Laminated veneer lumber plant
WESFI Limited’s December 1998 Half Yearly Report said that over the last 12 months, the company had held discussions with the Sumitomo Corporation of Japan for the manufacture in Western Australia of veneer and engineered wood products, in particular longitudinal veneer lumber (LVL).
The company sa...
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Australian LNG
Australian LNG (ALNG), a new marketing consortium, has been launched by Australia’s major gas resource holders to provide a unified approach to positioning Australian LNG to capture demand growth among LNG customers outside Japan.
The ALNG participants said they believed the commercialisation of th...
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Golden Cities gold project
AMX Resources said it would purchase the mothballed Davyhurst gold processing plant from the liquidator of Consolidated Gold NL for use at its Golden Cities gold project, 35 kilometres north of Kalgoorlie. (Davyhurst is about 70 kilometres from Golden Cities.)
AMX Chairman Michael Palmer said the D...
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Mt Klemptz Joint Venture
Troy Resources said drilling at the Bulchina prospect near Sandstone, which is within the Mt Klemptz Joint Venture (between Wirraminna Gold and Troy as manager), returned significant results.
After two phases of drilling at the prospect, the strike length of mineralisation has been extended to appr...
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Remote private power generation - Mid West region
Energy Minister Colin Barnett announced the names of the seven consortia selected to provide a detailed tender for the supply of power to the Mid West region.
The Mid West project’s scope includes the towns of Cue, Meekatharra, Mt Magnet and Yalgoo, and could also include Sandstone and Wiluna.
The...
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Bowry Creek/Main Creek project, Tas & Woodsreef Tailings Project, Tas
Golden Triangle Resources (GTR) released the results of a comparative scoping study that indicated the company’s proposed Tasmanian and New South Wales magnesium projects were both competitive internationally, being in the lowest quartile on the world production cost curve.
The Bateman Brown & Root...
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Syerston nickel project, NSW
Black Range Minerals said it had appointed Toronto-based CIBC Capital Partners as financial advisers to the Syerston nickel-cobalt project, 65 kilometres north-west of Parkes.
CIBC will initially work with Black Range to secure funding to complete the $10-million bankable feasibility study for the ...
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Cowal gold project, NSW
North Limited has been given development consent by the NSW Government for its Cowal gold project, 38 kilometres north-east of West Wyalong.
North Managing Director Malcolm Broomhead said the company would now pursue remaining approvals on the project. These primarily relate to the project’s mining...
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Beverley uranium project, SA
US-based General Atomics, through its subsidiary company Heathgate Resources, has received environmental approval to develop the Beverley uranium deposit, approximately 600 kilometres north of Adelaide.
During the next six weeks, the Federal Government is expected to give final approval and the Sou...
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Ladbroke Grove power station, SA
In late 1998, Boral signed construction and gas supply contracts for the $30-million, gas-fired, 40-megawatt, single-turbine Ladbroke Grove power station and new gas field development at Katnook.
Boral Energy’s General Manager Major Industry, Andrew Stock, said following the successful drilling of ...
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SASE Project, SA
Meekatharra Minerals said the South Australian Steel and Energy project (SASE) has become a company to take advantage of a $6.5 million research and development grant awarded to the Ausmelt pig iron technology demonstration plant at Whyalla.
SASE Pty Ltd will use Ausmelt’s furnace technology to pro...
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Kipper gas field, Vic
Santos said it had subscribed for shares in a subsidiary of Gulf Australia Resources, which will entitle the company to about a 7.5 per cent economic interest in Retention Lease VIC/RL2, which contains part of the Kipper gas field and is operated by Esso.
Kipper is located 42 kilometres offshore, 1...
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