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Lucapa looks at another path for Merlin

LUCAPA Diamond Company has paused the feasibility study into the Merlin diamond project in the Northern Territory while it looks at a smaller scale, lower-cost alternative path to development.

Staff Reporter
The old Merlin diamond pit in the Northern Territory.

The old Merlin diamond pit in the Northern Territory.

The Merlin feasibility study was supposed to be completed in 2022. In its 2022 preliminary final report Lucapa said the Merlin project feasibility study was "substantially progressed" and that it had...

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