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Rio Tinto is expanding its exploration reach in Western Australia’s Pilbara region with entry into a farm-in and JV agreement over West Wits Mining's Mt Cecelia gold-copper project, lying 150km NE of Marble Bar on the border of the East Pilbara and Paterson provinces.
The company may earn 51% of Mt Cecelia by spending $A4M on exploration within 4 years with the option to sole-fund a further $6M within 3 years for 80%, additional to up-front cash payments of $0.4M.
Global mining equipment, design and manufacture major Austin Engineering has signed a 5-year mining products and service supply contract with Rio Tinto Services worth about $A300M over the period.
The contract is for the supply of dump bodies, lightweight trays for ore trucks, heavy machinery buckets, water bodies and other fabricated products. It covers supply from all of Austin’s major global facilities including those in Australia, Indonesia, N America and S America, and is effective from Dec 16, 2021.
Australian-based explorer Heavy Minerals has posted a 59% increase in JORC inferred resources at its Inhambane mineral sands project in Mozambique to 90Mt @ 3% for 2.7Mt contained total heavy minerals, comprising ilmenite with zircon, rutile and leucoxene credits.
Rio Tinto will take over progressing the large undeveloped Mutamba ilmenite project in Mozambique after reaching mutual agreement with Savannah Resources to terminate their consortium agreement and transfer Savannah’s in-country team to Rio.
The decision, following a review by Savannah of its mineral sands operations, involves a $US6.95M termination compensation payment by Rio Tinto.
Concern over the ballooning costs of rehabilitating the former Ranger uranium mine continues to grow, with Energy Resources of Australia announcing it will appoint a global engineering company to help develop a confident estimate.
Since its parent company Rio Tinto agreed to underwrite a $A476M fund-raising in 2019, ERA has issued muted but increasingly dire warnings that the cost overrun will be significant.
BHP Iron Ore has stuck with Australian-based international engineer Monadelphous for a further 12-month extension of general maintenance services for shutdowns, outages and minor capital works for its Mt Whaleback, Jimblebar, Eastern Ridge, Mining Area C and Yandi minesites in WA’s Pilbara region.
The engineer has also secured a 12-month extension of its mechanical and electrical maintenance, shutdown and project services across BHP’s Nickel West operations.
Entrepreneur Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting will take the lead in bringing the Mount Bevan project in Western Australia’s Central Yilgarn region to development through a $9M-plus earn-in deal with current JV owners Legacy Iron and Hawthorn Resources. By John Feary
Despite revenue from Turquoise Hill Resources’ Oyu Tolgoi Sept 2021 (Q3 21) mining operation in Mongolia jumping to $US622.8M from Q2 21’s $317.8, its income attributable to the owners has plunged to $34.9M from $96.9M.
Copper-in-concentrates revenue was well up to $362.7M from $187.4M, gold to $254.3M from $127.5M and silver to $5.8M from $2.9M on copper production down 14% to 41,935t, but with gold output up 16% to 130,799oz and silver to 249,000oz from 235,000oz.
Rio Tinto unit Hamersley Iron has contracted electrical, control and instrumental services company Southern Cross to deliver civil, structural and electrical works to complete the installation of a 45MW/12MWh battery energy storage for spinning reserve facility at Tom Price in Western Australia.
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