SURFACE

Sino water works

CITIC Pacific Mining is seeking environmental approval to amend an already-approved expansion proposal for its Sino Iron mine in Western Australia’s Pilbara, to increase the groundwater extraction rate from the mine pits and discharge surplus water into the lower Fortescue River and estuary to 24 hours a day.

 Fortescue in flood

Fortescue in flood

Sino Iron's magnetite iron ore project in Cape Preston is run by China's CITIC under disputed lease agreements with Mineralogy billionaire Clive Palmer. Palmer controls the underlying mining tenements...

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