one of the deepest Nickel mine

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one of the deepest Nickel mine

posted on Aug 29, 2008 07:17AM

By: Martin Creamer

Published on 5th September 2007

South African company TWP had won a contract to establish the deepest mine in Australia, TWP Australia MD Bryan Bailie said in Perth on Wednesday.

Bailie told Mining Weekly Online in an exclusive interview that the new R3,6-billion Perseverance Deeps project, which was being undertaken by BHP Billiton Nickel West, would involve the sinking of a vertical shaft to a depth of 1 400 m.

This would be 300 m deeper than Australia’s current deepest at 1 100 m.

He said that the new 6,5-m diameter, three-million-tons-a-year shaft would be sunk at the Leinster nickel operation, 700 km north-east of Perth.....

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