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NQ boosts Hellyer capacity

CAPACITY at NQ Minerals’ Hellyer operation in Tasmania has been increased by 44% to an annualised 1.3 million tonnes per annum over 2019’s full-year plant production numbers, some six months earlier than expected.

Hellyer was suspended in 2000 and restarted 18 years later.

Hellyer was suspended in 2000 and restarted 18 years later.

The London-listed NQ achieved a production rate of 150 tonnes per hour in recent days following plant upgrade and circuit optimisation work in recent weeks.   Process optimisation works are now underway...

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