The Rixon news feed is a great way to catch-up on what has been happening around WA. We regularly update our feed with a collection of market and property related articles from a variety of news sources.
BHP Billiton Nickel West’s proposal to build and operate a new nickel sulphide mine near Leinster in Western Australia has been approved by the state’s Environmental Protection Authority (EPA).
The company plans to integrate the satellite mine into the Mt Keith operation, extending its mine life by 12 years.
The proposed Mt Keith project is anticipated to generate around 9.6 million tonnes (Mt) of nickel ore per year.
Neometals plans to post an updated Barrambie definitive feasibility study (DFS) next year, a decade after it was first released.
The developer has applied for an extension for the native title agreement and ministerial approval that were secured in 2012 to develop an open-cut mine and processing plant.
The Barrambie vanadium-titanium-magnetite project restart has been motivated by a robust market outlook and record high vanadium prices of $US130 ($178) per kilogram.
Greatland Gold (AIM: GGP) has added some kindling to the copper-gold rumours in Western Australia’s Paterson Province after it struck a “world-class” 275m thick intersection at its wholly-owned Havieron project, near mining giant Rio Tinto’s (ASX: RIO) rumoured major copper discovery.
The result was reported from the first hole of the drilling program, with the 275m intercept a combination of upper and lower mineralised zones.
The upper zone totalled 118m at 3.08 grams per tonne gold and 0.84% copper from 459m, while the lower zone intersected 157m at 6.04g/t gold and 0.44% copper from 660m.
Pilbara Minerals, in progressing its Pilgangoora lithium-tantalum project to a stage two expansion, has officially opened the operation.
Pilgangoora, 120 kilometres south of Port Hedland in Western Australia, plans to grow spodumene concentrate production from 330,000 tonnes per year to over 800,000t/y with stage two.
