PROCESSING

Mill booster taking shape

WESTERN Areas’ Mill Recovery Enhancement Project, which is designed to improve mill recoveries by 3% to 5% and generate another 1400 nickel tonnes in concentrate recovered per annum is on track for commissioning late in the March quarter.

Karma Barndon
Forrestania firefighting simulation facility.

Forrestania firefighting simulation facility.

The GR Engineering-designed MREP was first touted in July 2015 and should have been up and running in 2016. However, a dire nickel price caused Western Areas to shelve the project. Work has restarted...

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