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South Africa's Kumba looks at Hope Downs scale-up

KUMBA Resources, the mining division of South Africa's Iscor Ltd, is looking to bump up the scale of its proposed Hope Downs iron ore mine in Western Australia to improve the project's economic returns.

Stephen Bell
South Africa's Kumba looks at Hope Downs scale-up

Con Fauconnier, chief executive of Kumba, says that Hope Downs may need to produce around 25 million tonnes per year to adequately cover the cost of building a separate railway line to the Pilbara coast....

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