| Mineral or minerals processing project |
Estimated project value |
Stage |
Location |
| Agate Creek Gold Project: open-cut/CIP development |
Not available |
Under Study |
Far North |
| Baal Gammon Copper, Tin, Silver, Indium Project: open pit methods over a life of six to seven years, with the ore to be treated at the Jumna mill |
47 |
Construction |
Far North |
| Boyne - Smelter Expansion: New Cranes for lines 1&2 and and new carbon bake furnace for lines 1&2. Start 4th Qtr 2009. |
385 |
Committed |
Fitzroy |
| Chalco Project: A bauxite mine and a beneficiation plant at Aurukun with a production of 4.8Mtpa of dry beneficiated bauxite and an alumina refinery on the east coast with a production capacity of 2.1Mtpa of alumina exported to China to be established within a five year period; a total investment of $2.9 billion including $810 million in mine and beneficiation plant and $2.1 billion in refinery; an estimated direct construction workforce of 3800 over a three year construction period including 700 for mine and beneficiation plant at Aurukun and 3100 for refinery at Bowen; and an estimated direct operational work force of 585, including around 105 for mine and beneficiation plant operation and 475 for refinery operation. The provisional proposal includes a mine and washing plant at Aurukun and a refinery on the east coast of Queensland worth a total of $2.92 billion. |
2930 |
Feasibility |
Far North-Mackay |
| Cloncurry Copper Project (Exco): supports a strategy of consolidation of smaller tonnages of higher grade (+1.5% copper ore) through a central processing at Great Australia with estimated costs for a 600,000 t/a plant at nearly $42M. |
209 |
Under Study |
North West |
| Cloncurry Copper Project (Ivanhoe): The company’s near-term development plans include moving to a scoping study at the substantial Mount Elliot project in 2009, after an updated resource is completed. Mount Elliot could potentially host an open pit and underground operation, with Ivanhoe flagging its potential as a sub-level and black-caving operation. |
Not available |
Under Study |
North West |
| Conjuboy Diatomite Project: mining the largest known diatomite resource in Queensland which does not require calcining to achieve optimum filtration properties and mining lease application at Greenvale proposed for a processing plant |
23 |
Under Study |
Northern |
| Dept Mines and Energy Drill Core Facility |
4.788 |
Committed |
North West |
| Dugald River Zinc, Lead and Silver Project: Dugald River has the potential to produce about 200,000 t/a of zinc (about half the Century production of zinc), 40,000 t/a of lead and 1.5 million oz/a of silver in concentrate for at least 16 years, with a potential production start date of 2010. |
500- |
Feasibility |
North West |
| Einasleigh Copper Project: a treatment facility adjacent to the open pit Kaiser Bill mine 6 km to the west of Einasleigh, which would produce a precious metal-rich copper concentrate. The production rate is projected to be 1 Mt/a in 2009, building to 1.5 Mt/a from 2010. |
80 |
Under Study |
Far North |
| Ely Bauxite Deposit: development of approx 50 million tonnes. |
300 |
Prefeasibility |
Far North |
| Embley South Bauxite Project: development of a new bauxite operation south of the existing mine and port. |
1053 |
Feasibility |
Far North |
| Gladstone Pacific Nickel Project: construction of a nickel ore mine and a beneficiation plant to concentrate ores at Marlborough, and a large nickel/cobalt refinery at Gladstone. The refinery will be a modern, ‘fourth generation’ high pressure acid leaching (HPAL) facility. Provision for importation and refining of additional high grade laterite ores from the South West Pacific through the existing and planned future facilities, available at the deepwater port of Gladstone, are included in the Company’s plans. Construction Stage 1 mid 2009. |
4000 |
Basic Engineering |
Fitzroy |
| Handlebar Hill: opencut zinc/lead mine project |
79 |
Construction |
North West |
| Hodgkinson (Northcote and Tregoora) Project gold: The project comprises Northcote (joint venture with Jackson Gold and International Goldfields), 24 km west of Mareeba, and the wholly owned Tregoora goldfield, 103 km west-north-west of Mareeba. Further exploration is planned, with a view to eventual treatment at two centrally located mills. The company has carried out test work on the feasibility of using bacterial oxidation to treat the ore. |
Not available |
Under Study |
Far North |
| Kendall Kaolin Project |
120 |
Under Study |
Far North |
| Kalman: copper-molybdenum-rhenium-gold deposit |
Not Available |
Under Study |
North West |
| Lady Annie Cathode Copper Mine: new mine based on a plant, mine and camp at Mount Clark |
86 |
Construction |
North West |
| Lady Loretta Zinc, Lead and Silver Project: production of around 125,000 t/a of zinc in concentrate and 40,000 t/a of lead in concentrate for more than 10 years. |
200 |
Under Study |
North West |
| Lighthouse Quartz Project |
Not available |
Under Study |
Far North |
| Lime Dosing Plant (Dept Mines and Energy) |
6.394 |
|
Central |
| Lucky Break Nickel, cobalt: heap leaching project |
Not available |
Under Study |
Northern |
| Monto Minerals Works |
9 |
Basic Engineering |
Central |
| Mount Carlton Gold, Silver and Copper Project: at least four open pits, which will feed into a central plant |
62 |
Under Study |
Mackay |
| Mount Cannindah Copper, Gold Project Expected production – 2009 |
70 |
Under Study |
Fitzroy |
| Mount Moss Iron Ore Project: Mining operation to be an open pit. Design production is 1 Mt/a of high grade iron ore for shipment through the Townsville Port. Development delayed. |
30-50 |
On hold |
Northern |
| Mourilyan Silica Sand Project: silica sand dry-mining operation and wash plant. The project is capable of producing and exporting at least 200,000 t/a of highgrade silica sand. Mine life is expected to be more than 30 years. |
Not available |
Under Study |
Far North |
| Mungana Polymetallic (Zinc, Lead, Silver, Copper and Gold) Project: construction of a mill |
90 |
Construction |
Far North |
| NORNICO Nickel Project: The proposed project will involve shallow pit mining from five pits at a rate of 1.5 Mt/a to produce about 10,000 t/a of nickel and 435 t/a of cobalt. Nickel and cobalt is to be recovered by a heap leaching process. The company aims to build a sulphuric acid plant and power station using imported sulphur for both. The vision is for a project life of 20 years. The concentrate product could be trucked to the Yabulu nickel refinery or exported. Construction 2nd Qtr 2010. |
350 |
Under Study |
Far North |
| Pisolite Hills: development of a greenfield bauxite mine producing eight to twelve million tonnes of run of mine bauxite ore per year for export through a loading facilty in Port Musgrave with construction of a beneficiation plant and tailings dam on the site together with a camp, haul road, barge loading facility and associated infrastructure 2010-11. |
Not available |
EIS |
Far North |
| QMAG Upgrade (Queensland Magnesia): Installation of third multiple hearth furnace, milling upgrade, storage and packaging |
42 |
Committed |
Fitzroy |
| Rocklands Copper Project: new open-cut copper mine with options to process ore on-site, crush and screen the ROM ore on-site and/or transport the ore by conveyor, truck or rail to a third party for processing, or crush and grind the ROM ore and transport the ore as a slurry via a pipeline to a third party for processing. |
Not available |
Under Study |
North West |
| Roseby Copper Project: The project comprises a number of oxidised stratabound native copper deposits separate from hydrothermal copper-gold sulphide deposits. A final feasibility study concluded that the project is viable. Key points of the first stage are the likelihood of a 5 to 8 Mt/a operation with at least an eight to nine year mine life. The anticipated production is 35,000 t/a copper and from 14,700 ounces gold per year. Mining will initially focus on the Little Eva sulphide deposit and the Blackard and Scanlon oxide deposits. It is understood that the mill will be designed to treat 8 Mt/a of soft stratabound ore but only 5 Mt/a of hard sulphide ore if not blended. |
196 |
Basic Engineering |
North West |
| Sun Metals Zinc Refinery Expansion: Stage 2 development of the current Zinc refinery |
700 |
Financial Negotiations |
Northern |
| Wateranga Industrial Minerals Project: mining a multimineral eluvial resource |
85 |
Under Study |
Wide Bay-Burnett |
| Watershed tungsten project: produce a concentrate containing 4,000 t of contained WO3 per year, with a mine life of at least ten years and a mining rate of between 1.5 Mt/a and 1.75 Mt/a. This figure would represent approximately 7% of the entire world tungsten use. The deposit comprises disseminated fine to coarse-grained scheelite mineralisation, which is potentially amenable to a large open-pit mining operation |
50 |
Under Study |
Far North |
| Weipa Bauxite Mine Expansion of existing mine from 18.2 million tons per year to 35. Construction to commence late 2009, early 2010 with production in early 2013. |
1000 |
Feasibility |
Far North |
| White Range Copper Project: production of 15,000 t/a of cathode copper and a mine life of about seven years |
75 |
Under Study |
North West |
| Wirralie gold: open cut heap leaching |
Not available |
Under Study |
Northern |
| Woolgar Gold Project: heap leach style development of the deposit |
Not available |
Under Study |
North West |
| Yarwun Alumina Refinery Stage 2 (Yarwun 2 will focus on the construction of the five alumina process areas: tube digestion, precipitation, filtration, clarification and calcination. Major and minor facilities utilised in these process areas will be replicated.) |
2200 |
Construction |
Fitzroy |
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