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Sinclair caesium on the docks

THE first stage of mining at Pioneer Resources’ Sinclair caesium mine in Western Australia’s Eastern Goldfields has yielded 19,000 tonnes of crushed pollucite-bearing rock with an average 9.1% caesium oxide grade.

 The first road train of caesium leaves Sinclair

The first road train of caesium leaves Sinclair

The ore is earmarked for global specialty chemicals and performance materials customer Cabot, under an offtake and loan agreement signed back in June last year. The mined and crushed ore is made up...

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