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From paddock to Anthill mine

FIRST copper cathode has been produced at the Mount Kelly processing plant after a hectic eight-month development period to turn a bare paddock in Queensland’s Gulf country into the Anthill mine.

 Production team proudly holding the first sheet of Anthill copper cathode.

Production team proudly holding the first sheet of Anthill copper cathode.

Austral Resources has stacked 70,000 tonnes of ore, irrigated and producing copper on the heap leach, with 354,000t mined to date, for 4000t of copper. The 70,000t represents the first 700t of recoverable...

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