Resources Projects
A Perth-based base metals explorer has expanded the scope of the bankable feasibility study for its copper and zinc project in the Pilbara with recruitment underway for a project manager.
Toro Energy is targeting a commitment to its Wiluna Uranium Project by around September 2012 with start of construction by late 2012 and commissioning in late 2013, subject to approvals.
NRW Holdings Limited has been awarded more than $260m from three separate contracts in recent weeks related to Fortescue Metals Group projects.
VDM Group has signed a significant new contract with BHP Billiton Nickel West plus a suite of new projects which together represent $66.
Xstrata Zinc has begun construction on a new greenfield underground zinc-lead-silver mine in north-west Queensland.
A Ballarat-based copper, gold and iron ore explorer and mine developer says its proposed open pit mine on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia could cost up to $800 million to develop.
WA's environmental watchdog has recommended conditional approval to the minister for Rio Tinto's proposal to duplicate an 70 km rail line from Cape Lambert to Emu Siding.
Partners in Samancor Manganese - including BHP Billiton - have approved the second expansion of the GEMCO operation on Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory.
The Board of Australia Pacific LNG has approved a Final Investment Decision (FID) on the $14b first phase of a two train CSG to LNG project in Queensland.
Mineral Resources subsidiary Crushing Services International (CSI) is undertaking the design, construction and operation of the second ore processing facility at FMG's Christmas Creek mine.
