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Western Areas beats nickel blues

WESTERN Areas has weathered the nickel price storm to close the 2017 financial year in the black.

Karma Barndon
The Flying Fox mine at the Forrestania project in WA.

The Flying Fox mine at the Forrestania project in WA.

According to Western Areas managing director Dan Lougher the company countered the fickle and volatile nature of nickel in 2017 through the planned deferral of certain capital expenditure in the first...

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