EXPLORATION & DEVELOPMENT

Ardea concludes Goongarrie expansion feasible

AMBITION is the word of the day at Ardea Resources with the completion of a study supporting the viability of doubling the proposed Goongarrie nickel-cobalt project to 2.25 million tonnes per annum over the 1-1.5Mtpa level considered in the prefeasibility study just four months ago.

Ardea claims the largest cobalt resource in the developed world.

Ardea claims the largest cobalt resource in the developed world.

The expansion study was commissioned to understand the potential economic benefits of maximising throughput in a single autoclave train.    It would double development costs from A$600 million to $1.2...

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