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Metro goes rural for bauxite

A BANKABLE Feasibility Study has shown the consolidation of Gulf Alumina’s old Skardon River project into Metro’s Bauxite Hills tenements boosted the reserves and resources and confirmed a significant, long life, low capital cost and high margin project with a 17-year initial mine life for the Bauxite Hills mine in far north Queensland.

Karma Barndon
Metro Mining Bauxite Hills project near Weipa, QLD.

Metro Mining Bauxite Hills project near Weipa, QLD.

Metro’s BFS was based on annual production of 6 million tonnes of wet direct shipping ore (10% moisture) from a combined 2505sq.km holding that, when operational, will be one of the largest independent...

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