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Nifty Sulphide Project - Australia
Nifty Sulphide Project - Australia
Straits Resources Limited commissioned SNC-Lavalin Australia to perform a complete feasibility study into the expansion of the existing Nifty Copper Operation. The existing operation produces 25,000t/a copper metal from an open cut oxide deposit musing heap leach SX/EW recovery of metal. The expansion study considered an underground mine development to access the sulphide deposit with associated copper concentrator and infrastructure to support a 1Mt/a mining rate and the production of copper in concentrate.
The scope of the feasibility study covered mining, geology, processing, transport, port facilities, infrastructure, environmental, marketing and financial analysis. The Feasibility Study considered a number of project development alternatives related to mining methods, production rates, ore processing schemes and infrastructure needs. The site process plant consisted of crushing, grinding, flotation, thickening and filtration operations. The port facilities included concrete handling and loading facilities.